Do you ever find yourself wondering how we came to exist? Or how humans came to call planet Earth our home?

Join Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford as he talks to Charles Godfray - Director of the Oxford Martin School – they will take you back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang. From there, they will lead you through a 13.8-billion-year epic – a tale that culminates in the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered: the staggering complexity of the human mind.

Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet structured to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this talk will take the biggest story of all and tell it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly. It is the history of you, me and everything – of how we all came to be. In short, it is the greatest story ever told.

Book talk: 'The Universal History of Us' with Tim Coulson in conversation with Charles Godfray