I can’t comment on how effective it might be to spend £150 on registering with an agency. But I can say that it would cost nothing to enter FameLab 2009, which would also get you onto a database that is regularly consulted by television researchers, as well as science festivals and others looking for new faces and voices to communicate science and technology. You also get a free hour’s masterclass, just for turning up to a regional heat, and you could win a weekend’s residential masterclass in science communication, a trip to the final at Cheltenham Science Festival in June, international travel through the British Council, and up to £10,000 in prize money. You still have time to enter in Bristol, London, Oxford or Edinburgh, or you can send in a video entry at http://www.youtube.com/user/famelab which could get you straight into a regional final. See <http://www.famelab.org> http://www.famelab.org Timandra Harkness <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] <http://www.timandraharkness.com> www.timandraharkness.com ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************