Naked Lunch (film) Naked Lunch (film) Naked Lunch is a 1991 drama film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain and Japan. The film was released on December 27, 1991, in the United States and April 24, 1992, in the United Kingdom by 20th Century Fox. It received positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, garnering only $2.6 million out of a $17–18 million budget due to a limited
The Naked Scientists "Naked Scientists" PhD student, Diana O'Carroll, to examine the educational impacts of science broadcasting and new media. O'Carroll also set up a "Naked Scientists" spin-off podcast, "Naked Archaeology", which launched in 2008. A second spin-off, "Naked Astronomy", featuring Cambridge University-based space scientists and astronomers, has been podcast since December 2009. Naked Astronomy also hosts the Space Boffins podcast, produced by journalists Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson. A combined video and audio programme, "Naked Engineering", produced by Dave Ansell and Meera Senthilingam and supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, launched in September 2010. For Christmas 2010 the group also showcased