Lexx Education

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School science, sibling chaos, actual learning.

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Lexx Education is a comedy science show built around Laura Lexx relearning classroom science from Ron. Amino acids, glycerol, phospholipids, snakes, lipids, and enzymes share space with family teasing, travel stories, Patreon jokes, and arguments about how much science can fit before the nonsense takes over.

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About Lexx Education

Lexx Education makes secondary-school science feel like a stubborn object being passed back and forth across a table. Laura Lexx tries to learn it. Ron tries to explain it. That simple setup produces a show where amino acids, glycerol, triglycerides, phospholipids, enzymes, and animal defense mechanisms are always competing with jokes, family shorthand, fatigue, travel stories, and whatever distraction has arrived first. The science matters, but the path toward it is deliberately untidy. A lesson can begin with Easter weekends, zoo visits, sick days, dogs, cats, or a seagull eating a hot dog before Ron finally pulls the conversation back to biology. Once there, the teaching is concrete. Molecules get named. Prior lessons get tested. Terms like metabolically active and amphipathic are treated as things Laura Lexx might remember, forget, bend, or immediately turn into wordplay. That tension gives the show its shape. It is funny because Laura Lexx resists the work, and it works because Ron keeps calmly putting the work back in front of her. The episodes also make room for the pair to comment on their own podcasting habits, from editing choices to sound effects to whether a science episode has enough science in it. Patreon rituals and class-dismissed endings turn the lesson into a running social world without requiring the listener to treat it solemnly. There are special episodes and side roads, including history-flavoured detours and Easter traditions, but the recent run keeps returning to biology and the problem of retaining it. The register is blunt, intimate, and fast. It can be chaotic. It is rarely vague. Lexx Education stands apart from cleaner educational shows because the confusion is not edited out; it is the evidence that learning is happening in real time.

Made for: Suits a listener who likes science explained through mistakes, arguments, and running jokes rather than neat lecture notes. Best fit for someone comfortable with blunt comedy around real curriculum material.

What sets it apart: Lexx Education does not smooth the lesson into a scripted explainer; it keeps the false starts, misremembered terms, and sibling corrections in the foreground. The result is science education where the struggle to understand becomes the format.

In their own words

Fire up your Bunsen burners and join award-winning comedian Laura Lexx as she attempts to pass her Science GCSEs (all over again) with the help of nerdy younger brother, Ron. Every week the squabbling siblings dissect a topic from the baddest educational document on the planet - the UK’s National Curriculum. Microbiology, magnetism, manganese…can long-suffering Ron explain atomic structures or will Laura be forever banging her head against the periodic table? Whether you love thermodynamics - or ridiculous family dynamics - Lexx Education takes you back to your school days to find out whether it’s possible to relearn your GCSEs…or be forever doomed to looking things up on Wikipedia.

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Ron knows Laura can't take an hour of science; you get the detours too.

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  • a phospholipids lesson with enough sibling interruptions to make a classroom teacher surrender
  • a Tudor history lesson where a Walmart-and-Asda analogy has to carry religious reform
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The Big Kissy Lips Snake - Easter SpecialApr 5, 2026

A sick-day science chat finds memorable survival logic in a snake that makes death look convincing.

This Easter episode turns Ron's sick day into a rambling comic science lesson, as Laura Lex tries to learn from her younger brother while he is ill and fed up with her dogs.

More Fish Good HeartMar 23, 2026

A glycerol quiz gets pulled through mic trouble, workout nausea, and a hard-to-forget seagull tangent.

Lex Education turns a science quiz into a relaxed lesson on glycerol, lipids, and the hazards of Laura Lex's confidence. She works through questions from her baseball-cap-wearing brother Ron, first reaching for energy storage before being nudged back toward the lipids already on…

Religion’s Being All Boo HissMar 16, 2026

Laura and Ron turn Tudor suspicion and women's working lives into a loose, sharply funny history discussion.

Laura and Ron take a winding path through women in history, starting with Margaret Pole, a princess by birth who is described as being executed after no evidence was found that she had plotted to restore the York family.

Podcasts like Lexx Education

Episodes

  1. 1

    An Idiot Who Didn't Investigate A Good Log

    Hidden gem

    Lex Education uses a troll-doll analogy to teach amino acids, with Laura Lex and Ron reducing proteins to 20 amino acids.

    Apr 13, 2026·37m·2 clips
  2. 2

    The Big Kissy Lips Snake - Easter Special

    Hidden gem

    Laura Lex and Ron turn Lex Education's Easter special into a survey of thanatosis, the term for animals that play dead.

    Apr 5, 2026·40m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Classic Manosphere

    Hidden gem

    Lex Education's "Classic Manosphere" spends its first stretch on Facebook, Threads, Reddit, and the odd feeling of random cross-posted feeds before Laura Lex finally pushes the conversation into proteins.

    Mar 30, 2026·45m·3 clips
  4. 4

    More Fish Good Heart

    Hidden gem

    Lex Education opens with Laura Lex and Ron joking about a seagull that "deep throat[ed] a glizzy" while Laura says a 45-minute HIIT session and an iced mocha with ice cream have made her feel sick.

    Mar 23, 2026·45m·3 clips
  5. 5

    Religion’s Being All Boo Hiss

    Hidden gem

    Lex Education uses Elizabeth I to examine women’s legal limits in Tudor England, where property and marriage laws ran through men.

    Mar 16, 2026·54m·3 clips
  6. 6

    Blue Gum Gully!

    Hidden gem

    Lexx Education follows Laura’s first week in Adelaide, where she visits Glenelg Beach, watches fruit bats near the zoo, joins gym classes, and adjusts to Australian heat.

    Mar 8, 2026·52m·3 clips
  7. 7

    Business in London

    Hidden gem

    Lexx Education’s “Business in London” combines Laura and Rob’s travel, work, and media conversations with a biology lesson on phospholipids.

    Mar 2, 2026·47m·3 clips
  8. 8

    Churlish Boy Moments

    Hidden gem

    Lexx Education’s “Churlish Boy Moments” follows comedian Laura Lex and her brother Ron through a comic science lesson on phospholipids.

    Feb 22, 2026·45m·3 clips
  9. 9

    Horny For Boleyns

    Laura teaches Ron how Elizabeth I managed religious conflict, economic pressure, and the political difficulties of ruling as a woman.

    Feb 16, 2026·51m·3 clips
  10. 10

    Gilmore Me Softly With This Pod: Ep 1 - Blozza For Coffee

    Lexx Education's Patreon-only episode, "Gilmore Me Softly With This Pod: Ep 1 - Blozza For Coffee," recaps the first two Gilmore Girls episodes with Laura Lye and Ronri.

    Feb 8, 2026·1h 3m·4 clips
  11. 11

    I’m A Wooden Trap

    Feb 2, 2026·44m
  12. 12

    Pretty Good Squirrel

    Jan 25, 2026·42m
  13. 13

    All in the Shoo and Not in the Ralph

    Jan 19, 2026·41m
  14. 14

    The Rest Might Be History

    Jan 11, 2026·49m
  15. 15

    Ticking Time Bum

    Jan 5, 2026·47m
  16. 16

    Jury Of Your Haters

    Dec 28, 2025·54m
  17. 17

    Merry Christmas From Two Anxious Fucks

    Dec 22, 2025·56m
  18. 18

    Thick In Weird Ways - Elf Maths Christmas Special

    Dec 14, 2025·48m
  19. 19

    The Lait Homme

    Dec 8, 2025·46m
  20. 20

    We’re Not Talking About Snakkenbourg

    Nov 30, 2025·49m
  21. 21

    The Peak of The Hump

    Nov 24, 2025·49m
  22. 22

    Not An Easy Task for Such a Heavy Baby

    Nov 16, 2025·49m
  23. 23

    Glizzy Fizzy Spaghetti Diet

    Nov 10, 2025·46m
  24. 24

    To Stop and Stay Stopped

    Nov 2, 2025·51m
  25. 25

    A Third Dog In The Mix

    Oct 27, 2025·44m
  26. 26

    Sticky Stick Poodles

    Oct 19, 2025·48m
  27. 27

    The Boy Tube

    Oct 13, 2025·54m
  28. 28

    Probably Andrew

    Oct 5, 2025·1h
  29. 29

    The Aardvark Debacle

    Sep 29, 2025·52m
  30. 30

    Never Shower At Our House

    Sep 21, 2025·58m
  31. 31

    A Hostile Environment for Both Science and Self-Esteem

    Sep 15, 2025·1h 13m
  32. 32

    Vibe Whiplash

    Sep 7, 2025·54m
  33. 33

    Sound Effect Extravaganza

    Sep 1, 2025·43m
  34. 34

    Felt Hatch Room

    Aug 24, 2025·49m
  35. 35

    Reporting for Booty

    Aug 18, 2025·53m
  36. 36

    City Doves

    Aug 11, 2025·52m
  37. 37

    Heart Beat Bugs

    Aug 4, 2025·59m
  38. 38

    2 Pigs: Sticks and Stone

    Jul 27, 2025·1h 9m
  39. 39

    Much Mickey Ado About Mouse

    Jul 21, 2025·1h 7m
  40. 40

    Turning Upping In People

    Jul 14, 2025·56m
  41. 41

    Hence Ducks and Human Men

    Jul 7, 2025·57m
  42. 42

    The Schneid Man Himself

    Jun 30, 2025·58m
  43. 43

    A Little a With A Curly Bum

    Jun 23, 2025·49m
  44. 44

    A Workshop on Zhjuszsjh

    Jun 16, 2025·1h 4m
  45. 45

    Disciplining Boys In The Park

    Jun 9, 2025·1h 10m
  46. 46

    Led Med Ned Od Ped

    Jun 2, 2025·57m
  47. 47

    Three Seven and Boring

    May 26, 2025·56m
  48. 48

    Hate Crime Against Bank holidays

    May 19, 2025·1h 8m
  49. 49

    Guess How Many Batteries I'm Holding

    May 12, 2025·56m
  50. 50

    Limited with Laura Lexx

    May 5, 2025·51m
  51. 51

    Rylan Why Are Your Big Friends Here?

    Apr 28, 2025·1h 20m
  52. 52

    Cardronym Hydroxyboodle

    Apr 21, 2025·57m
  53. 53

    The Dry Dry Forest of Physics

    Apr 14, 2025·1h 2m
  54. 54

    Coconut for the Family

    Apr 7, 2025·49m
  55. 55

    Siblings the Panel Show

    Mar 31, 2025·1h 11m
  56. 56

    T For Touchdown?

    Mar 24, 2025·1h 8m
  57. 57

    Enormous Cheese Manta Ray

    Mar 17, 2025·55m
  58. 58

    Post Dosa

    Mar 10, 2025·1h 5m
  59. 59

    Buckle Up Bucko This Is A Level

    Mar 3, 2025·1h 7m
  60. 60

    Plumble

    Feb 24, 2025·1h 4m
  61. 61

    4 Months Break Wasn't Enough

    Feb 17, 2025·1h 5m
  62. 62

    Valentines 2025: Athletes Puss and Trench Dick

    Feb 10, 2025·55m
  63. 63

    You Would Eat Pale Potatoes in Pale Mayonnaise and Call It a Meal You Pale Woman

    Feb 3, 2025·1h 12m
  64. 64

    From The Tippity Top to the Bippity Boptom

    Jan 27, 2025·1h 7m
  65. 65

    Physic Higher Tier 2 - A Rather Gassy Barnacle

    Jan 20, 2025·1h 13m
  66. 66

    Physics Higher Tier Exam 1 - Giddy Up Piggy

    Jan 13, 2025·1h 23m
  67. 67

    Chemistry Higher Tier Results - You Can't Boil A Molecule

    Jan 6, 2025·1h 3m
  68. 68

    Chemistry Higher Tier Exam 2: A Big Shop Mum Loves

    Dec 30, 2024·1h 11m
  69. 69

    The Grinch - His Big Lactating Titties

    Dec 23, 2024·52m
  70. 70

    Christmas Trees: Is Brian Blessed A Local Celebrity?

    Dec 16, 2024·47m
  71. 71

    Chemistry Higher Tier Exam 1 - We Talk About Our Bin Routines

    Dec 9, 2024·57m
  72. 72

    Biology Higher Tier Results - Welcome To The Top Of The Mountain

    Dec 2, 2024·1h 3m
  73. 73

    Higher Bio Exam 2 - A Nod Under the Ocean

    Nov 25, 2024·58m
  74. 74

    Biology Higher Tier 1 - Red Blood Spells

    Nov 18, 2024·53m
  75. 75

    They Say You Do Your GCSEs Twice…

    Nov 11, 2024·1h 6m
  76. 76

    Physics Foundation Results - Some Time Before Humans Had Even Discovered Plums

    Nov 4, 2024·53m
  77. 77

    Halloween Special 2024 - The Spookiest Thing That You Run Into On An Almost Daily Basis

    Oct 28, 2024·59m
  78. 78

    Physics Exam Foundation 2 - Blow The Trifle Away

    Oct 21, 2024·1h 1m
  79. 79

    Physics Exam Foundation 1 - Email About A Magical Family Outing

    Oct 14, 2024·54m
  80. 80

    Chemistry Foundation Results: Daddy Boys Legs

    Oct 7, 2024·1h 6m
  81. 81

    Chemistry Exam Foundation 2 - You Want Me To Get Rid of Farty?

    Sep 30, 2024·1h 6m
  82. 82

    Chemistry Exam Foundation 1 - Some Kind of Beautiful Pipette

    Sep 23, 2024·1h 7m
  83. 83

    Biology Foundation Results: One of The Stuff Is The Answers

    Sep 16, 2024·1h 7m
  84. 84

    Biology Exam - Foundation 2 - You Can Nut In The Background

    Sep 9, 2024·1h 6m
  85. 85

    Biology Exam - Foundation 1 - Pieces of Potato

    Sep 2, 2024·1h
  86. 86

    Walked At Dogspeed

    Aug 26, 2024·1h
  87. 87

    Frothy For Bean

    Aug 19, 2024·54m
  88. 88

    Stevie Wonderneath

    Aug 12, 2024·1h 2m
  89. 89

    Ron Ron Ron Ron Ron Ron

    Aug 5, 2024·1h 7m
  90. 90

    Some Classic Lexx Ed Bollockery

    Jul 29, 2024·1h 5m
  91. 91

    I Never Went To Candle School

    Jul 22, 2024·1h 9m
  92. 92

    Lessons in Your Own Duncitude

    Jul 15, 2024·58m
  93. 93

    Spill The Tea-th

    Jul 8, 2024·1h 11m
  94. 94

    Listen Snake Head

    Jul 1, 2024·58m
  95. 95

    True Crime Fiction Story

    Jun 24, 2024·1h 12m
  96. 96

    Not Infinitely and NOT Falafel

    Jun 17, 2024·48m
  97. 97

    Sensey Toons

    Jun 10, 2024·58m
  98. 98

    Chickens are called Ducks in this World

    Jun 3, 2024·59m
  99. 99

    I Imagined Vertical Bananas

    May 27, 2024·48m
  100. 100

    Ugly Buck Teeth

    May 20, 2024·1h 4m
  101. 101

    Throw A Bunch of Pubes on The Last Baby Born

    May 13, 2024·1h 5m
  102. 102

    Are These Shoes New

    May 6, 2024·1h 25m
  103. 103

    Gregorhead

    Apr 29, 2024·1h 6m
  104. 104

    Jeremy V Jeremy

    Apr 22, 2024·1h 10m
  105. 105

    We Never Fucking Invited You To Brunch

    Apr 15, 2024·1h 21m
  106. 106

    Down Happening Again in Micro

    Apr 8, 2024·1h 7m
  107. 107

    Take the Badgers out of Leeds - 2024 Easter Special

    Apr 1, 2024·55m
  108. 108

    Life's Hard For The Slags

    Mar 25, 2024·1h 8m
  109. 109

    Thumbs Are Fingers

    Mar 18, 2024·1h 18m
  110. 110

    Big Bean Energy

    Mar 11, 2024·1h
  111. 111

    Algae Pants

    Mar 4, 2024·1h 2m
  112. 112

    A Lovely Sauce!

    Feb 26, 2024·1h 9m
  113. 113

    Tango With a Fig Roll

    Feb 19, 2024·58m
  114. 114

    Valentines 2024- Wheelbarrow & Hammer Life

    Feb 12, 2024·57m
  115. 115

    BONUS EPISODE: Patreon Comedy Episode!

    Feb 9, 2024·45m
  116. 116

    Buff Siblings Talking Science

    Feb 5, 2024·51m
  117. 117

    Snails Are The Loneliest Animals

    Jan 29, 2024·1h 3m
  118. 118

    70s Punk Dystopian Roundhead

    Jan 22, 2024·1h 10m
  119. 119

    Two Absolute 18th Century Lads

    Jan 15, 2024·1h 5m
  120. 120

    Baby Films for Baby People

    Jan 8, 2024·49m
  121. 121

    Chel From Friends

    Jan 1, 2024·51m
  122. 122

    The 12 Days of Christmas: An Attempt To Ruin All Of The Fun

    Dec 25, 2023·59m
  123. 123

    Elf Anatomy: Foraging Bastards

    Dec 18, 2023·51m
  124. 124

    A Toothless Mona Lisa Sipping Some Scrumpy

    Dec 11, 2023·1h
  125. 125

    Endless Salt Pork

    Dec 4, 2023·1h 4m
  126. 126

    Means Nothing Adds Nothing And Isn't Funny

    Nov 27, 2023·1h 1m
  127. 127

    Stanky Bow Wow

    Nov 20, 2023·1h 4m
  128. 128

    Sexy Little Fblthp

    Nov 13, 2023·1h 14m
  129. 129

    Did We Talk About Bernard Cribbins?

    Nov 6, 2023·53m
  130. 130

    Two Fun Tongue Facts - Halloween Special 2 2023

    Oct 30, 2023·55m
  131. 131

    The Shadow of King Kong - Halloween Special 2023

    Oct 23, 2023·1h
  132. 132

    Milk in Glass Jars

    Oct 16, 2023·1h 5m
  133. 133

    Woke Science: A Monoculture of Sand

    Oct 9, 2023·49m
  134. 134

    Ate Out of Ten Cats

    Oct 2, 2023·51m
  135. 135

    Or Car

    Sep 25, 2023·59m
  136. 136

    Tom Parry Doesn't Think You're Funny

    Sep 18, 2023·1h 11m
  137. 137

    Legs Longer Than The M5

    Sep 11, 2023·1h 2m
  138. 138

    A Friend of Curtis Stigers

    Sep 4, 2023·1h 9m
  139. 139

    Joe Better Be Ryan Your Best - Don't Gamble On That

    Aug 28, 2023·1h 1m
  140. 140

    The Narcissism Snail

    Aug 21, 2023·1h 4m
  141. 141

    The Narcissism Snail

    Aug 21, 2023·1h 4m
  142. 142

    It Came In Three Parts Like An Ant

    Aug 14, 2023·55m
  143. 143

    Humiliating Orange Pen

    Aug 7, 2023·1h
  144. 144

    Sand Living

    Jul 31, 2023·1h 4m
  145. 145

    How Would You Arrive At A Paella Stand

    Jul 24, 2023·1h 2m
  146. 146

    Too Many Mixy Medicines

    Jul 17, 2023·1h 13m
  147. 147

    Lexx Boggle

    Jul 10, 2023·1h 7m
  148. 148

    Dara O'Briain Teaches Space Physics: Squishing and Clumping

    Jul 3, 2023·59m
  149. 149

    The Second Paella Calculation

    Jun 26, 2023·1h 8m
  150. 150

    A Lot of Plants are Outside

    Jun 19, 2023·1h 8m
  151. 151

    Music to my Anus

    Jun 12, 2023·56m
  152. 152

    Imagine if a Bumble Bee Was Riding a Bike

    Jun 5, 2023·1h 33m
  153. 153

    Dead Air

    May 29, 2023·1h 3m
  154. 154

    Moo Cow Pox

    May 22, 2023·1h 17m
  155. 155

    Billy Bags are Equal to Scum Puckets

    May 15, 2023·1h
  156. 156

    Dog Tooth Fairy

    May 8, 2023·1h 8m
  157. 157

    Doesn't Involve Sticks

    May 1, 2023·1h 1m
  158. 158

    A Very Potato Salad Kind of Person

    Apr 24, 2023·1h 1m
  159. 159

    Parmahootical

    Apr 17, 2023·1h 7m
  160. 160

    Eggatha Christie

    Apr 10, 2023·1h 18m
  161. 161

    April Cool's Day

    Apr 3, 2023·1h 15m
  162. 162

    Don’t Lick Mud

    Mar 27, 2023·1h 5m
  163. 163

    A Ratatouille of Rotten Courgettes

    Mar 20, 2023·1h 17m
  164. 164

    Cheese Pipe of a Man

    Mar 13, 2023·1h 7m
  165. 165

    Throw Him In The Scuppers

    Mar 6, 2023·1h 6m
  166. 166

    The Whole World is Wibblin Things

    Feb 27, 2023·1h 19m
  167. 167

    Bog On For Woodlice

    Feb 20, 2023·56m
  168. 168

    A Very Pregnant Love Island

    Feb 13, 2023·1h
  169. 169

    Nutwood

    Feb 6, 2023·58m
  170. 170

    The Book of Moron

    Jan 30, 2023·1h 9m
  171. 171

    Ink on a Beetles Feet

    Jan 23, 2023·1h 2m
  172. 172

    She’s Making a Shit Book of Science

    Jan 16, 2023·1h 7m
  173. 173

    Honking for Honks

    Jan 9, 2023·54m
  174. 174

    Classic TV Hag (The Moles Redo Special)

    Jan 2, 2023·1h 42m
  175. 175

    How To Make A Reindeer Fly: You Need A Rat Carpet

    Dec 26, 2022·1h 8m
  176. 176

    The Science of Home Alone: Hot Knobs

    Dec 19, 2022·1h 4m
  177. 177

    Riddled With Buttholes

    Dec 12, 2022·1h 13m
  178. 178

    McDeath 2: Fupa and Roy

    Dec 5, 2022·57m
  179. 179

    Have You Ever Tried Not Being Sad?

    Nov 28, 2022·1h 2m
  180. 180

    Bar Graph For Wankers

    Nov 21, 2022·1h
  181. 181

    The Worst Episode Yet

    Nov 14, 2022·1h 4m
  182. 182

    Carbonzo Beans

    Nov 7, 2022·55m
  183. 183

    Jumble Frog - Halloween Special 2022

    Oct 31, 2022·1h 14m
  184. 184

    A Pig and an Airbed

    Oct 24, 2022·1h 1m
  185. 185

    Everybody Hertz

    Oct 17, 2022·1h 7m
  186. 186

    Intermolecular Force To Be Reckoned With

    Oct 10, 2022·1h 11m
  187. 187

    Valve Slap

    Oct 3, 2022·1h 4m
  188. 188

    There's No Such Thing As A Fire

    Sep 26, 2022·1h 19m
  189. 189

    Figabee

    Sep 19, 2022·1h 7m
  190. 190

    High Tummy Pressure

    Sep 12, 2022·1h 20m
  191. 191

    Gravity Is Not An Emotion

    Sep 5, 2022·54m
  192. 192

    Xenon Warrior Princess

    Aug 29, 2022·1h 14m
  193. 193

    You Can't Measure Chaos

    Aug 22, 2022·1h 8m
  194. 194

    McDeath

    Aug 14, 2022·1h 1m
  195. 195

    Caesium the Daysium

    Aug 7, 2022·54m
  196. 196

    A Blood Factory in a Bone Cave

    Jul 31, 2022·55m
  197. 197

    down.

    Jul 24, 2022·54m
  198. 198

    AAANA

    Jul 17, 2022·1h 7m
  199. 199

    Might O’Condria feat. Haddaway

    Jul 10, 2022·1h 4m
  200. 200

    Is that lentils bulgur wheat or...?

    Jul 3, 2022·51m
  201. 201

    Bob Marley and the Sad Boys

    Jul 3, 2022·53m