Cunk on Life

Cunk on Life

She's back and ready to take on life.

2024•1h 10m•7.4/10

ComedyTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.4/10(179)

Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.

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Production

Broke & Bones, BBC

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Diane Morgan

Diane Morgan

Philomena Cunk

Douglas Hedley

Douglas Hedley

Self

Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake

Self

Alison Wright

Self

Celia Deane-Drummond

Self

Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse

Self

Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili

Self

Joyce Harper

Self

Prokar Dasgupta

Self

Anil Seth

Self

Ruth Adams

Ruth Adams

Self

Joanna Woodall

Self

Gregory Dart

Self

Stephen Case

Self

Ruth Chang

Self

Peter Kail

Self

Richard Thomson

Self

Professor Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox

Self

Michelle Greenidge

Michelle Greenidge

Jacqui Flink

Charles Aitken

Charles Aitken

Waylon Jackalope IV

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