Another old favourite. There’s good news that the BBC is going to produce a new popular science show for BBC1 provisionally titled “What? Where? Why?” to replace the late, and sometimes lamented, Tomorrow’s World. Science has been critically missing from our screens for too long now. We certainly get plenty of natural history, but that’s only part of the story. Hopefully that’ll also allow some of the more frivalous topics that Horizon’s covered of late be incorporated into a more popular show and provide some serious, and more difficult science over on BBC2.
These days, the only place you can get really good and consistent science coverage is actually on the radio, where Radio 4 does a good job as does the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast.
There was a cracking In Our Time last week on probability, incidentally – it’s available to listen again to here.