In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 07/01/13 14:02, D.M.Chapman wrote:
In article , geoff
wrote:

The truth of the matter is that we have a country that is so dumbed down
that he has to aim at the lowest common denominator and people seem
embarrassed at any display of scientific knowledge or intelligence. Dara
seems to be someone who is bucking the trend - good luck to him


Yeah, he seems geniune enough. I didn't mind his show - would have like more
science but most of it was ok.

My 11 year old son loved the show however... and was very interested. Guess
that's a success then.

Dara always comes across as friendly and appears to have a real wish to
share his enthusiasm. How true that really is I don't know, but he was
very good at responding to a question sent to him from my sons friend via
twitter (and I'm sure he gets millions of tweets!)... could have been a
lucky hit I guess, but that's two 11 year olds who spent several hours
listening to science instead of playing minecraft. That's a win in my
books.

Darren


+1.

I like Dara and the show was passably interesting.
If you didn't mind it being dumbed down for 11 years olds,

Now look at this and ask yourself whether in today's BBC such a show
would even be contemplated. let alone made..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGwSe0ZptV0

You obviously didn't see this series of lectures on BBC4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y4y46

They do exist, from time to time

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geoff