Daniel Radcliffe sings "The Elements" - The Graham Norton Show - Series 8 Episode 4 - BBC

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Daniel Radcliffe performs his party trick on The Graham Norton Show: singing Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', the periodic table song, from memory. It is a two-minute talk-show clip.

Mentioned in Tom Lehrer threads as a charming example of Lehrer's song reaching a new audience.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@sriram_malhar2015 · in “Tom Lehrer”

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter actor) did Lehrer's periodic table song not too long ago. Earnest and cute! [VIDEO]

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@lupire2024 · in “Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?”

Daniel Radcliffe sang it on Graham Norton, introducing Tom Lehrer to a crowd who didn't know him. [VIDEO]

@vmlinuz2025 · in “Tom Lehrer has died”

We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' - [VIDEO] )