On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:54:47 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , Don Pearce
wrote:

As to the TV programmes, have you noticed that it is only scientific
subjects that are treated this way? Anything else they can deliver more
or less the straight goods.

For me, one advantage of the iPlayer is that it has made it easier to
listen to the science programmes on BBC radio. These are often far better
than the ones on TV. More diverse and often willing to treat listeners
seriously and assume they aren't all utterly illiterate when it comes to
science and technology.


Radio is better, but not perfect. The Material World for example.
Every moderately serious piece is more or less obliged to finished
with an extremely weak joke from Quentin Cooper.

d