Life began more than 3.5 billion years ago, and now we share the planet with around 12 million other species. Dr Jones has set himself the difficult challenge of telling the entire story of life on earth in 1 hour. Can he cover the origins of life, the evolution of millions of species, the extinction of millions more, and the rise to dominance of Homo sapiens, in just 60 minutes? No he can’t. But it’s still a good show.

By day, Dr David Jones is a biologist - he has worked at the Natural History Museum in London for years. By night he does stand-up comedy, and has taken science comedy shows to lots of festivals. Come along and laugh in the face of extinction.