Cunk on Life

Dec 5, 2024

1h 10m

★ 7.3

She's back and ready to take on life.

Overview

Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Broke and Bones

BBC

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Cast

Philomena Cunk

Diane Morgan

Self

Douglas Hedley

Self

Rupert Sheldrake

Self

Alison Wright

Self

Celia Deane-Drummond

Self

Paul Nurse

Self

Jim Al-Khalili

Self

Joyce Harper

Self

Prokar Dasgupta

Self

Anil Seth

Self

Ruth Adams

Self

Joanna Woodall

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