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The Royal Astronomical Society · 122 episodes with transcripts

The UK's #1 space podcast. Science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space.

Spoken has transcripts of 122 The Supermassive Podcast episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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Antimatter is Bananas!

October 5, 2026

Jeffrey Hangst (0:01)

I like to think of them as kind of the evil twin of normal matter.

Becky Smethurst (0:05)

Bananas.

Izzie Clarke (0:06)

It always comes back to Bananas. Every time. Cheetos came back to Bananas, and Cheetos will be back to Bananas.

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