The Story Collider: Changing Perspectives

What we see, and what we think we see, has always shaped science. Join award-winning podcast The Story Collider for their live show featuring true, personal stories about how science changes the way we understand the world… and how the world changes science right back.

This event welcomes Becky Stewart, an Associate Professor in Interactive Systems in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research centres around the body and how technology can be used to improve how that body interacts with the surrounding environment. After her PhD and before returning to academia, Becky co-founded a creative technology education company that ran workshops at institutions including the V&A, Tate Modern, and British Museum teaching kids and adults how to use technology to develop creative projects.

Becky is joined by Alex Lathbridge, a biochemist and computational biologist with a PhD in novel peptide therapeutics. His award-winning podcast, Why Aren’t You A Doctor Yet? , combines science and tech journalism with pop-culture. He’s also the voice behind the BBC Radio 4 podcast Scientifically… and the host of the BBC’s Bitesize Biology podcast, teaching GCSE Biology concepts over 10 minute episodes.

The Story Collider is a live storytelling show and podcast that brings together scientists and people connected to science to share personal stories about moments when science intersected with their lives. Since launching in 2010, the show has featured hundreds of storytellers—from researchers and doctors to patients, engineers, students, artists, comedians and science communicators—revealing the deeply human side of science that you won’t find in textbooks or journal articles. Each story is told live, without notes, and focuses not on data or lectures, but on the lived experiences behind scientific discovery, curiosity, failure and wonder.

This event is part of Science Cabaret at the Great Exhibition Road Festival on 6-7 June 2026.

The event takes place in a zone for people aged 18+ only. People younger than 18 will not be allowed entry into the building.

Please arrive at the venue 10 minutes before the start time. Your ticket gives you priority access, however, as this is a free event if you do not arrive 10 minutes before the start time your space may be reallocated. Early arrival reduces this risk.

Great Exhibition Road Festival

6-7 June 2026

South Kensington’s annual celebration of science and the arts returns this summer with a weekend of free events for all ages.

Enjoy hands-on workshops, fascinating talks, performances and installations from iconic museums, research and culture organisations in South Kensington, including Imperial College London, the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, V&A, the Royal Parks, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and many more!

Find out more about the Festival and see the full programme on the Festival website at www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk.