Pop science and Punjabi epics
b'With Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas\\xa0\\u2013 Alexander van Tulleken on what makes popular science books \\u2013 including Neil deGrasse Tyson\'s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry \\u2013 so popular, and is there a hidden danger in making science the subject of water-cooler\\xa0conversations?; Clair Wills joins us in the studio to discuss the forgotten stories of Punjabi migrants who came to England in the 1950s and early 60s, and introduces us to the fascinating, genre-blending works they composed and performed in pubs;\\xa0and finally, the TLS\'s History editor David Horspool explains how Oliver Cromwell\\u2019s embarrassingly messy attempts to conquer the Caribbean in the mid-17th\\xa0century nonetheless set the stage for modern overseas expansion \\u2013 as well as giving us an early instance of fake news
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