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Cox has clearly made science sexy and in this spin-off of Infinite Monkey Cage, his enlightening radio series with cardigan-clad Robin Ince, he was indisputably the main attraction.

Cox was in an understandably excited mood. The Higgs Boson, maybe an explanation of the universe, was possibly sighted in Geneva yesterday, so he sensibly discussed what he called "the most important thing this century, if not in the history of science".

He lost me with an early reference to neutrinos but 3,999 fans sat rapt as he pointed at various baffling graphs.

There was plenty of accessible fun elsewhere, though. Ince delighted in bookish gags about Bertrand Russell, Josie Long read from a bogus version of Darwin's diary in which he tucked into turtles.

Serial sceptic Simon Singh revealed how Nostradamus-type codes can be found everywhere - Princess Diana's death is apparently predicted in Melville's Moby Dick.

This show did not last for light years but at times felt like it. After three hours Tim Minchin arrived to play a deliciously irreverent new song about Jesus, which suggested that he "kind of did what Derren Brown does".

Minchin was then joined by Cox for his soppy finale ballad, White Wine in the Sun. In a parallel universe Minchin and Cox are undoubtedly massive rock stars. They probably feel like rock stars in this one too.

Tonight (0844 844 0444, ticketmaster.co.uk)

Uncaged Monkeys: Night Of 200 Billion Stars
HMV Apollo
Queen Caroline Street, W6 9QH