I was out two of the nights (I am allowed out on my birthday I think) so caught bits of 3 of them. I suspect that tickets for the first one were for so-called ‘challenged’ kids. They weren’t bad but I felt something I can’t put my finger on was missing and left me a tad disappointed. I’m mainly interested to see how science is currently being presented to the young. the change to channel5 is an interesting move and I approve of the shift to the evening as mid-morning was always useless. It is now done ‘live’ which might be one reason for the slightly dumbed-down feeling. Live phone-in voting is never proper scientific sampling so I always despise it – I reckon any attempt to explain GM in detail is likely to seem like promoting it – benefits and risks are going to be very hard to balance on the best prospective applications. My favourites in recent years were Dr. Steve Jones on Genetics, who is a star, and the series on the geology of plate tectonics – I forget the presenter’s name. I was surprised they were never repeated again in January or on late overnight “school’s TV” slots. _ By the way, after checking my guess, Sir John Krebs is son of the late Sir Hans Adolf Krebs who won the 1953 medicine Nobel Prize for the ‘Citric Acid (or Krebs cycle)’ of biochemical breakdown of carbohydrates, ie glucose, for energy to power all living cells.
