Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Here he is: Feynman. Sooner or later he was going to show up wasn’t he? Here’s a famous Horizon about the legendary physicist/communicator from 1981, the year I did my A-levels. Why didn’t anyone show me this video at school? Why did his name never even come up? Did I choose the wrong school? The [...]
Horizon: What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?
I’ve been trawling the BBC channels at YouTube for stuff to put up at Watchification but it’s a pretty unsatisfying experience. As far as I can tell there are just clips from shows you’ve already seen (or would like to have seen) and trailers. Nothing special, nothing made for the platform (somebody will correct me [...]
The Sky At Night
I can imagine Watchification turning into a bit of a BBC4 niche, so it’s with great pleasure that we present a programme from that home of the mainstream - BBC 1. Though admittedly it’s The Sky At Night, a monthly programme that struggles to get on before midnight. What a lovely piece of telly though, [...]