Speechification

Sometimes Radio Four is slothful and supine, lazy in a bed of licence fees. And sometimes, like on Big Bang Day it’s just the best thing in the world ever. They took the hoohah over the turning on of the LHC and built a suite of programmes around it that proved exactly why it’s such a brilliant station. From the bumbly chaos of Andrew Marr at the turning on to Quention Cooper and Adam Hart Davis doing physics administration and engineering to the silly drama of Torchwood and Woman’s Hour doing physics careers this was exemplorary stuff; a national broadcaster doing education through entertainment. For the MP3 we offer you Physics Rocks, which was a nice way of getting at the joy of physics via people like Alan Alda and Eddie Izzard. And it proves that maybe Dara O’Briain should be Stephen Fry’s Deputy Prime Minister when natural order is enacted. MP3 here. (And full marks for all the extra stuff on the website too.)

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