Helen Arney

02/10/13 • 56 min

Spoken nerd and songstress Helen Arney lends her voice to the show. Video games, fossils, AIs, cat chat, and almost no ukuleles.

Tracklist

Buckner & Garcia – Pac-Man Fever
They Might Be Giants – I Am A Palaeontologist
A.F. Harrold – Science Party Poem
Tim Minchin – When I Grow Up (from Matilda)
Jonathan Coulton – Good Morning Tucson
Helen Arney – The Sun Has Got Its Huff On

Cramped up by philip hay

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Spoken nerd and songstress Helen Arney lends her voice to the show. Video games, fossils, AIs, cat chat, and almost no ukuleles.

Tracklist

Buckner & Garcia – Pac-Man Fever
They Might Be Giants – I Am A Palaeontologist
A.F. Harrold – Science Party Poem
Tim Minchin – When I Grow Up (from Matilda)
Jonathan Coulton – Good Morning Tucson
Helen Arney – The Sun Has Got Its Huff On

Cramped up by philip hay

Send feedback and comments to [email protected].

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