Andrew Cohen Audiobooks

The Universe: big-picture science, narrated by Brian Cox

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Who is Andrew Cohen?

Popular science needs someone willing to do the structural work behind the wonder, and that is the role Andrew Cohen’s writing plays. The Universe takes the largest subject available and organises it into something a listener can genuinely follow, moving from the very small to the almost unimaginable without losing the thread.

The tone is expansive rather than technical. Physics on this scale can be delivered as a wall of numbers, and the better approach, the one taken here, is to keep returning to the question of what any of it means for the people looking up. It sits on our science shelf but plays like a long and absorbing act of storytelling.

Andrew Cohen in audiobooks

The audiobook is narrated by Brian Cox, whose delivery keeps the scale of the material human, and the eight and a half hours pass more like a run of broadcasts than a lecture. If you have enjoyed televised science of this kind, the register will feel immediately familiar.

Begin here if the cosmos is your subject and you want the full sweep rather than one corner of it. It rewards a good pair of headphones and an unhurried evening. The audiobooks below will take you to the listing.