Did anyone watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures?

They were hidden away on BBC4 at 20:00hrs for three days from Boxing Day (with no previews or publicity anywhere ) but were actually quite watchable (especially with there being no adverts)

And only a couple of mentions of CO2 and man-made global warming - which is quite surprising for the BBC (and the RI)!

mb

 

Monster vs Aliens......

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO
Had a quick look for them on xmas eve and couldn't find anything so I assumed they were not on.

Were they good?

 

Best thing i watched without doubt was the film Up.

 

Did you cry at the start?

 

And in the middle, and at the end

 

Better than recent years

Only three, one hour, episodes, which made them much more viewable (no adverts etc.) - you can prolly still get them on iPlayer, but IMHO they should be put on the RI web-site for future reference.

This year's chappy, Peter Wothers, did a great job - which was confirmed when he "adapted", on the fly, when things didn't go quite as expected.

It was science, explained at the "kiddie level" to encourage genuine interest - but also detailed enough for old peeps to appreciate what is around them

One of the few "jewels" left in our education system!

mb

 

This was on last night, pretty good, unfortunately not on 4od

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...es-1/episode-1