For broadcasting in science, David Attenborough has been hugely important.
What was the exact milestone - Zoo Quest, Life on Earth, Private Life of
Plants, ...? Opinions will vary!
- Daniel
On 04/10/2017 16:31, Rick Hall wrote:
> Noel
> he was Raymond Baxter
> so if we are into broadcasting and science
> and on the 60th anniversary of sputnik
> we should mention the launch of Telstar in 1962
> and the first transatlantic TV pictures beamed over to Goonhilly Downs
> for about 10 minutes before the satellite went out of range..
> and the No 1 hit for the Tornadoes of the same title and year
>
> cheers
> R
>
> On 4 October 2017 at 16:21, Barbara Govan
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> I'd have to mention executive TV producer, Duncan Dallas, sadly no
> longer with us and his leadership of the ITV science programme
> department, based in Leeds.
> Duncan pioneered patient power, long before the internet with shows
> such as "Don't Ask Me!" or "Where There's Life" with Dr Miriam
> Stoppard. A live audience was able to challenge doctors, scientists
> and academics, rather than being told stuff.
> These shows would command audiences of 9-10 million between the
> soaps, spanning the 70s to the early 90s.
> Duncan recruited young production talent, some of them research
> scientists tempted away from the lab to the shiny TV studio.
> If anyone ever wants an entertaining talk about those heady days and
> what they led to, we've recently created an illustrated lecture,
> having once been part of Duncan's team. Paul Bader went on to create
> many hours of science programming for Screenhouse Productions after
> the department closed down, making much loved, popular science shows
> with fun demonstrations and builds, with Dr Adam Hart-Davis, such as
> "Local Heroes" and "Science Shack".
> We're still going, with popular science and history films for e.g.
> the BBC1 "One Show" and even film in colour!
> Best wishes,
> Barbara
> CEO
> Screenhouse
> 0113 200 7041 <tel:0113%20200%207041>
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> It would be interesting to pin down when it actually started to be
> called Sci Comm. I have been doing this for nearly 30 years and it
> wasn't called that when I started, it was called 'Public
> Understanding of Science'. My guess would be around the time the
> Imperial College course started, which is about the earliest thing I
> can recall being badged 'science communication' with it really
> taking off post-Jenkin when things clearly moved on from the Bodmer
> paradigm.
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> Otherwise I would say that the first hands-on science centre in the
> UK was a landmark of major importance. There is a bit of debate
> about who was the first to open in around 1986, but the Ontario
> Science Centre Circus appeared at the Science Museum as a Launchpad
> precursor in 1982, and at the British Association Meeting in Norwich
> in 1984 Richard Gregory and Steve Pizzey showed the first home-grown
> UK hands on exhibits in a tent, making it the direct precursor of
> the Exploratory, At-Bristol, Inspire, The Observatory and the
> Discovery Dome, as well as an indirect stimulus for all the others
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> IAN
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> Hi there,
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> We're asking and discussing with our #scicomm masters students this
> week what key moments in the history, politics and future of
> #scicomm might be...
>
> We had the Bodmer report from Sam Illingworth - what would yours be...?
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> Feel free to tweet your moment @scicomsalford my key #scicommhistory
> moment is... (and the year) plus a weblink if there is one.
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> thinking from the public and scientific perspective or somewhere in
> between...
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> We'll share the timeline back... and hopefully start a debate about
> it...
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> Erinma
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