Huw Wheldon Lecture 2010: Science - a challenge to TV Orthodoxy

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Duration: 40 minutes

Professor Brian Cox uses this year's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture to address the main challenges in bringing science to television. He tackles the risks in simplifying science for a television audience, the perils of abandoning fact in the name of balance and the importance of making science on television intellectually and emotionally engaging.

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Brian Cox
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Sophie Deveson
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Sophie Deveson
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Jonty Claypole

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