Category Archives: News

The paperback edition of Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science is now out.

Click to read my latest blog on faster than light neutrinos and boxer shorts.

New blog post in which I call for suggestions for a title for my new Radio 4 science series (Read blog here)

Some of the projects in broadcasting I have coming up this year. (Click here to read it).

This Thursday, 17th February, I begin filming on my new three-part BBC4 series “The Story of Electricity”.

Just came across this interview I did at the Science Museum (sandwiched between Robert Winston and Richard Dawkins) during the launch of our Channel 4 series, Genius of Britain, in the summer of 2010.

Click here to view it.

Rambling recollections of some of the highlights of my working year. [Click here to read it]

My BBC4 series “The Secret Life of Chaos” has just won ‘Best Film’ award at the International Science Film Festival in Athens. Well done to director/producer Nic Stacey.

You can still catch it on YouTube here.