I developed this tentative-taxonomy-of-science-festivals 2 for a talk I gave in New York in November 2010 and thought it might be worth making it more widely available. I found it interesting that Science Festivals seemed to draw to different extents on two distinctive traditions for public events, namely the University Open Day and the Arts Festival and would be very interested in other people’ views
Wild Hackney nominated for two BBC Audio Drama Awards
•January 12, 2012 • Leave a CommentWild Hackney has been nominated for two BBC Audio Drama Awards in the Best Online Audio Drama and Innovation categories.
The drama is set in the aftermath of the inundation of the East London flood plains, a not so wild guess at what sea level rise might mean to the low lying coastal world capitals. Public Engagement with climate change given the upstream treatment?
Wild Hackney
•July 22, 2011 • Leave a CommentFresh from winning a Silver Sony Award for Night in Hackney Francesca my daughter and producer has given me the chance to narrate another piece Wild Hackney that takes its inspiration from the Victorian Gothic novel After London by Richard Jefferies that describes London reverting to nature after a flood, with only a few survivors roaming the marshland under which the once great city is submerged. Francesca at her compositional best in exploring a scenario that might still become a reality [although it's a huge comfort that we could all take refuge in the Olympic Stadium].
Science comes to the Canterbury Festival
•July 22, 2011 • Leave a CommentVery excited as the programme for the science strand I devised for the Canterbury Festival is published. It’s all about science and performance, my two great loves and features some of the liveliest minds at that fascinating boundary between science and the arts.
Get down to Canterbury between October 18th and 22nd if you can.
“Night in Hackney” nominated for Sony Best Internet Programme Award
•March 31, 2011 • Leave a CommentJust found out that my daughter Francesca’s programme that takes you through a typical Hackney night and for which I got the acting credit for the narration is shortlisted for a Sony Radio Academy Award. Great feeling to get nominated for an acting award again after all these years. To listen to the programme go to: Night in Hackney
Finally the proof I needed
•March 30, 2011 • Leave a CommentDr Thiswont Hurt
Harley Street
London
To whom it may concern
This has cost Francis Burnet a great deal of money and is to certify that he suffers from an extremely common genetic condition caused by the absence of the so called “Green Gene” on the Y chromosome.
If you should mistakenly serve him salad you might have to use the Heimlich anti-choking manoeuvre as illustrated below
Yours in the money
Dr T. Hurt
[Specialist in mens' problems by appointment of His Royal Highness Prince Philip]
Франк Бърнет
•March 22, 2011 • Leave a CommentWill be featuring in the first Sofia Science Festival in May and just tried unsuccessfullyto read the blurb on the Festival website, but do suspect that Франк Бърнет is Frank Burnet [but a lot classier]
