Helen Keen
Helen Keen grew up a curious, uncoordinated only child in the rural North of England. As a stand-up she has been a finalist in the usual national competitions (Funny Women, Hackney Empire, Leicester Mercury).
Her first ever solo stand-up space rocket themed show 'It Is Rocket Science!' received the 2008 Buxton Festival Fringe Award for Best Comedy Performance.
"Fascinating and hilarious.. ..littered with anecdotes about evil typography and exploding bats" - * * * * *" - The Skinny
After a successful run on the Edinburgh Fringe at the Gilded Balloon, it was developed as a BBC Radio 4 series, and broadcast in March 2011. She is now working on a second series for broadcast next year. Helen has never been into space.
helen_keen
helenkeen.com
Matt Brown
Matt Brown is editor of Londonist.com, a website about London and everything in it, where he writes (among other things) the Week in Geek column devoted to local events for people with curious minds. He's a former editor at Nature and has contributed articles on space to several books and websites.
Nowadays, he finds it much more fun to put on a tin-foil helmet and prance about on stage firing off random observations and questions about life, the universe and everything.
You can also catch him running the Royal Institution's science pub quiz every couple of months. Matt has never been into space.
mattfromlondon
londonist.com
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