BBC Documentaries

Science: A Challenge to TV Orthodoxy (2010x162)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 01, 2010

Professor Brian Cox addresses the main challenges in bringing science to television, in this year's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture 2010. He tackles the risks in simplifying science for a television audience, the perils of abandoning fact in the name of balance and the importance of making science on television intellectually and emotionally engaging.