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This week Adam’s in Cardiff to meet the team behind Science Made Simple, a social enterprise which puts the fizz into physics and demonstrates to school students and the public that science is fun.

He meets Debbie Sirop and Gaz Smith who are currently touring Science Made Simple’s show, The Experimentrics, a fusion of physical theatre with live science demonstrations. For Science Café’s listeners, Debbie and Gaz perform some of their noisier experiments from the show. It’s extraordinary what sounds you can get of two drinks cans, a drinking straw and a Slinky toy.

Adam also talks to Wendy Sadler, Science Made Simple’s founder, about science communication and her mission to engage children and teenagers with physics. And, just to add a few more strange sounds to the mix, Wendy demonstrates her skills on the Theremin, the strange hands-free electronic instrument that provided the soundtrack for countless ‘50s and ‘60s science fiction movies.

But what do the audiences think of The Experimentrics?  Reporter Jason Phelps meets pupils from Ysgol Sion Cwilt in Llandysul, who attended a recent performance and asks whether it ignited their interest in science. The answer is a resounding ‘yes!’