Lexx Education

Lexx Education

Fire up your Bunsen burners and join award-winning comedian Laura Lexx as she attempts to pass her Science GCSEs (all over again) with the help of nerdy younger brother, Ron. Every week the squabbling siblings dissect a topic from the baddest educational document on the planet - the UK’s National Curriculum. Microbiology, magnetism, manganese…can long-suffering Ron explain atomic structures or will Laura be forever banging her head against the periodic table? Whether you love thermodynamics - or ridiculous family dynamics - Lexx Education takes you back to your school days to find out whether it’s possible to relearn your GCSEs…or be forever doomed to looking things up on Wikipedia.

Episodes

May 13, 2024 65 mins

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Lexx Education! It's our centenary! Can you believe we made it to 100 episodes?! We know we can't!

To celebrate making it this far, a place that not many podcasts get to, we are looking at the 100 Greatest Scientific Discoveries. We've unearthed a very cool book called the 100 Greatest Science Discoveries Of All Time by Hendall Haven and we're beginning a meandering wander through the l...

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian science loving younger brother Ron!

Ron didn't make any episode notes for this, our 99th episode and when I messaged him to ask him what it was about so I could write this he said "Biology, selective breeding - we don't get much done at all. Basically just talk about cabbage a...

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April 29, 2024 66 mins

This week on the podcast... Ron talks us through how to make hummus, Laura and Ron discuss food for a long time - must have been a lunch record. But they don’t eat anything in the episode so that’s good.

We almost get on to the science but then Laura befuddles us again with a discussion of mind casting.


We cover a summary of energy sources: wind power, solar power, and then things get a bit derailed when Laura devises a theory th...

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April 22, 2024 69 mins

Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! If you're looking for a bingeworthy podcast full of laughs and regular episodes then look no further than Lexx Education! It's packed with British humour from brother sister duo Ron and Laura who are marching slowly methodically painfully and hilariously through the GCSE science syllabus with limited results.

This week after a bit of a nostalgic start discussing the Frosties ki...

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April 15, 2024 81 mins

Oh look no one has the energy for this bit today. It's the podcast. It's actually a bit more sciencey than usual. Are you new to the podcast? Don't start here. Go back to 1 and trek through and meet us back here when you're ready. We'll wait. If you know the podcast and are ready for episode 96 then jump on in here and get with it. It's the podcast. The science is variation in evolution.

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April 8, 2024 66 mins

Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her non-comedian brother Ron!

This week, we have come to the end of the physics syllabus and so Ron and Laura are revising the beginnings of physics. We look back over the first few months of how we started with the physics... looking at energy and... resultant forces. Yikes.

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Happy Easter everyone! Welcome to the 2024 Easter Special from Lexx Education - the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx tries her very best to learn science from her normal nerdy cool younger brother Ron.

This week, we are staring down the barrel of Easter... obviously we're all pretty excited ahem, eggcited about Eggathon 2 happening on Friday HOWEVER right now we're looking at things that have brought humanity back fr...

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March 25, 2024 67 mins

Hello and welcome to your new favourite podcast! It's Lexx Education - the comedy science podcast where siblings from Somerset Laura and Ron work their way painstakingly through the AQA GCSE science syllabus. This week though, comedian Laura Lexx and her brother Ron have reached the point in the chemistry syllabus where they have to talk about Laura's deepest darkest fears: the environment and atmospheric changes. To make it nicer,...

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March 18, 2024 78 mins

Hello and welcome to another episode of Lexx Education - the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx learns GCSE science from her non-comedian brother Ron!

This week, we don't want to shock you, but we actually do quite a lot of science. It's like... mainly science?! We introduce some science, and then we stick to the science, get engrossed with the science and enjoy the science?

It's biology this week and we're looking at i...

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March 11, 2024 59 mins

Hello and welcome to Lexx Education and gosh isn't there a lot of pressure here now I know people actually read this! Welcome to the only comedy science show featuring a brother teaching a sister the combined AQA science syllabus. It's a huge week for us this week as it's the last ever physics GCSE proper lesson... we mark it in style by beginning the episode discussing how strong we are. No spoilers but it's very strong. 

Then...

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March 4, 2024 62 mins

Well hello to the approximately 150,000 people who do actually read this weird little bit here! Welcome to lexx ed - the comedy science podcast where a comedian called Laura Lexx tries to learn science from her brother Ron. It's great! Well done for being here!

Episode 90 is chemistry and this week we are looking at changes to the atmospheric gases... ooooooh!

Here is a link to the book "It's Not The End of the World" by Charlotte Ri...

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February 26, 2024 68 mins

Hello and welcome to Lexx Education! The comedy science podcast, released weekly on a Monday, where comedian Laura Lexx learns science from her younger brother Ron.

Does anyone actually read these?

This week we're covering some ground we’ve already covered. But honestly, if you actually read this let us know.

The timeline is fucked - we discuss things that had happened that now haven't happened and things that should happen that got d...

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February 19, 2024 58 mins

Are you a new listener that we picked up last week due to the accessibility of the Valentines Day episode? Well, we’re about to fuck you into a bin.

This week we are back on syllabus and it's time for magnets! It's a redo, because, aren't they all lately? Laura's magic fingers have been losing episodes left right and centre and now here we are redoing magnet content. Laura has done some research and brings it to the table to put aga...

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February 12, 2024 57 mins

Hello! Welcome to Lexx Education... the comedy science podcast where comedian Laura Lexx is USUALLY learning the AQA GCSE science syllabus from her non-comedian younger brother Ron. If you're new to the podcast have a listen to this episode for a taster and then scurry back to episode one and binge your way through to the present - it's a podcast best served in order!

This week is our 2024 Valentines special... in this episode Ron l...

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February 9, 2024 45 mins

Hey faithful listeners!

As part of our patreon series, Laura is taking the reigns and talking Ron through the science of Laughter as per Dr Robert Provine in his book "Laughter". Next week on the patreon feed we are releasing episode 3 of this series and so we thought we might try and tempt a fe wmore of you to join the patreon subscribers by giving you this little taste of what you're missing out on...

We drop two bonus patreon epis...

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February 5, 2024 50 mins

So here we go, we're entering another redo. Laura's fingers and wandering brain have struck again and the episode that was Identifying Common Gases only exists somewhere in the deleted file realm. Perhaps one day a science will exist that can find it but it is not this idea. SO, in lieu of that, the buff siblings from Somerset have re-recorded (corded?) and here present the exact same science again but this time with a lot more bic...

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January 29, 2024 62 mins

It's Awards Season babaayyyyy... and does this episode win the award for shortest time from starting to the first person being told to go fuck themselves? It might do!

Laura has been an arse lately and this episode really reflects Laura and Ron's bitterest feelings about each other. It's DNA and inheritance and stuff and is the last episode for a while that is not a redo so enjoy!

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January 22, 2024 70 mins

Hey up everyone it's Lexx Education! This week Laura has a very shiny moisturised face and the effects of the advent calendar are discussed in detail but Ron fails to finish the round up.

Shout out to Will Duggan and his water flosser.

We're looking at 6.6.2.3 for the numbers fans and it’s got the energy of two people killing time waiting for a bus, rather than two people in charge of running a science podcast that could be full of c...

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January 15, 2024 65 mins

Hello and welcome to Lexx Education! It's the comedy science podcast where a sciencely challenged comedian, Laura Lexx, is trying to relearn the GCSE science triply syllabus from her brother and teacher Ron (one person).

This week starts with a lot of chatter as Laura and Ron catch up post break for a holiday. Laura tells Ron all about seals and whether or not she would have sex with them and why she is angry with Cornwall.

Then, as ...

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January 8, 2024 49 mins

Wayo! It's Lexx Education you eggloving mofos!

It's biology this week so naturally we launch straight into the syllabus with absolutely no pre-amble or messing about... just kidding. No, of course we don't. Biology We begin with a long discussion about how Agony Dad sharpens his pencils. Then there is a meaty discussion of animated films and who should watch them.

When we finally reach the science it's hormones, puberty, reproduction...

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