Helen Arney – Page 2 – Comedian. Writer. Presenter. Geek Songstress

Synthesizers, Science and Symphonies this month

As the world gets a bit more back to normal (and our lockdown baby passes his 18 month semi-birthday) I’m off to Cardiff to present this incredible one-off concert with the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

The music is all about Archimedes, the mathematician and inventor of ancient times, and I’ll be looking at his achievements as well as the myths that have built up around him over time in between each piece.

Tickets for the concert on Friday 26th November 2021 are available here, or you can listen out for the broadcast on BBC Radio some time soon after. Check my twitter and facebook for broadcast dates when I know them!… Read the rest

Stand Up For Our Streams

in Uncategorized on 06/06/21

Do you actually know how to flush a toilet? Turns out no-one does, so I wrote a song about it… and performed it in an actual stream…

Watch it on twitter here. It’s all for the #SaveOurStreams campaign from Affinity Water. Hope it makes you think how to waste less of the precious water that comes from our local environment and into our houses.

Get yourself some free water saving devices here and learn all about the rare and endangered chalk streams we are so lucky to have here in the UK.… Read the rest

New Podcast, new Element Song and new projects.

in Uncategorized on 04/16/21

2020 has been… interesting. I’ve birthed a new podcast, a new baby and a new version of Tom Lehrer’s Elements, all made a little more awkward during a global pandemic.

I had a lot of fun creating a full brass band version of the Element Song with the good folks at Chemistry World, you can read all about it and watch the video online here.

Our Festival of the Spoken Nerd podcast also launched with six episodes of truly Unnecessary Detail. Listen, subscribe and download on your podcast app of choice, or click here for all the details.

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