Dr Karl Kruszelnicki comes to Brisbane for one night to perform a show at the Old Museum, Wednesday  September 11. Audience Q&A and book signing will follow.

How did a shy Polish immigrant kid – Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki – evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl?

The only child of Holocaust survivors who came to Australia in 1950, Karl has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world’s favourite scientific storytellers, he ambled through a convoluted cacophony of a career. He has wandered down more than a dozen career paths, from being a TV weatherman, to a professional four-wheel drive tester in the outback, to being a roadie for Bo Diddley and even a long-haired taxi driver. All of these seemingly random experiences have helped create the Karl we know today. Karl’s story teaches us that you don’t have to know all the answers, as long as you ask the right questions along the way.