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Just watched the best science TV program I've seen in a long while. Here are the details:
Wednesday 07 April 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4 Beautiful Minds 1/3 - Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"We're all children of the stars," explains Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell in a brisk, no-nonsense tone that cannot conceal her lifelong ardour for astrophysics. The first in a series celebrating women scientists reveals how Bell Burnell prevailed over wolf-whistles and scepticism to identify radio pulsars in 1967, only to have the ensuing Nobel Prize go to her doubting supervisor. There's no need to be an armchair boffin to be caught up in the excitement, as Bell Burnell recalls the heady days leading up to a discovery that was initially mistaken for little green men.
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The next in the series of three programs just aired, with James Lovelock. Classic stuff! Oh what a relief from the usual science drivel we get!
Wednesday 14 April 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4 Beautiful Minds 2/3 - James Lovelock
This week's boffin is Professor James Lovelock, one of the first scientists to alert the world to environmental issues and currently making headlines with his end-of-the-world prophecies. He's fiercely independent, if amiable, preferring his souped-up garden shed to institutional laboratories. There, he came up with the invention that made his name - the electron capture detector, which confirmed the wide distribution of pesticide residues. Later he used it to show how CFCs destroy the ozone layer. But it's his Gaia theory - positing the Earth as a single, self-regulating organism - that really made Lovelock contentious in the 1960s. Some authorities, including Stephen Hawking, tore it to pieces. However, in today's climate change-conscious times, Lovelock's bleak predictions have gained increasing credibility. This series is thought-provoking and lucid: a welcome change from the gimmicky packages that often pass for science on TV.
The final part airs next week, same time, same channel: Wednesday 21 April 9:00pm - 10:00pm BBC4 3/3. - Sir Tim Hunt
Nobel-winner Sir Tim Hunt talks about his discovery of the mechanism of cell division.
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BBC4 - 1/3 - Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
