What happened 13.8 million years ago? The Big Bang. Perhaps. Gillian Anderson explains in under 2mins: http://t.co/tcRiaXKUQ6 #R4Ideas

— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) January 14, 2015

How did the universe begin?
It’s tempting to believe that it didn’t, that there was always something, rather than nothing.
Cosmologists used to believe this so-called Steady State theory of the universe,
but hardly any do now as increasingly the evidence is pointing against that.

More Clips Narrated by Gillian:
Hindu Creation Stories
Thomas Aquinas and the First Mover Argument
William Paley and the Divine Watchmaker
Karl Marx on Alienation
The Idea of Cultural Transmission
The Fourth Revolution

PLUS: Radio 4: Gillian's Guide to Love and Life