THERE’S a moment in this production when a man, played by a woman, sings a lullaby to a rasher of bacon in a lodging house run by a woman played by a man in drag. It makes Monty Python look normal.

For his BBC series Wonders Of The Universe, physicist/television personality Brian Cox has nicked the beloved-by-nerds "Galaxy Song" from Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life to soundtrack his three ...