One lucky audience in Cornwall will be able to take a journey into deep space with renowned physicist Professor Brian Cox next year – for one night only.

The professor of particle physics has also become a well-known TV personality in recent years and next year he will touring the UK with a continuation of his sell-out, live arena tour ‘Horizons – A 21st Century Space Odyssey’ – including at Truro’s Hall for Cornwall.

The show has already taken more than a quarter of a million people, spanning three continent,s on a journey through time and space.

It is a story of how we came to be and what we can become, using state-of-the-art screen technology, with venues across the world, from New Zealand to the Arctic Circle, filled with images of far-away galaxies, alien worlds, supermassive black holes and the latest theories of the origin of the Universe.

It considers questions such as “What is the nature of space and time?”, “How did life begin, how rare might it be and what is the significance of life in the Cosmos?” and “What does it mean to live a small, finite life in a vast, eternal Universe?”

Having travelled the world, Professor Cox is now bringing Horizons back home to the UK for a final journey. He will be in Truro’s Hall for Cornwall on Saturday, March 23, 2024 and while tickets have gone on sale for other venues, at www.briancoxlive.co.uk, tickets for his Cornish show do not go on sale until Monday, July 10 this year.

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Professor Cox is known for presenting a number of highly acclaimed science programmes for the BBC, including ‘The Universe’ (2021), ‘The Planets’ (2018) and ‘Forces of Nature’ (2016).

He also co-hosted popular astronomy and cosmology series ‘Stargazing Live’ with Dara O’Briain in the UK, as well as for ABC in Australia, with Julia Zemiro, and also co-presneted award-winning BBC Radio 4 series ‘Infinite Monkey Cage’ with Robin Ince, which has gone on to become one of the UK’s most popular podcasts.

As an author, he has also sold more than a million books worldwide including ‘Black Holes’, ‘Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos’, ‘Quantum Universe’ and ‘Why Does E=mc2?’ with co-author Professor Jeffrey Forshaw. He also wrote the series of books to accompany his popular television and radio programmes.

He has set several Guinness World Records, including for the biggest-selling science tour – a record he then broke again with his most recent worldwide tour, ‘Horizons’, which has visited venues in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and across Europe.

He is credited with boosting the popularity of subjects such as astronomy and physics and has garnered a host of accolades for his TV work, including two Royal Television Society awards and a Peabody Award for Wonders of the Solar System.