Wild swimming with Dr Alice Roberts.
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snapper_37
Barbara Woodhouse's Love Child
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Great programme. I enjoyed it so much that I ran down to the cut armed with just a towel. Then I saw the rubbish and greasy film. 
Would def like to give it a try but not in the buff!
Would def like to give it a try but not in the buff!
phil_hg_uk
I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
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User482
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It occurs to me that both Alice Roberts and Brian Cox became professors after their TV careers blossomed...
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User482
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Yes, I know. I happen to think it cheapens the title, that's all. Though not as much as converting a private company to a university, and conferring the title on yourself.
http://www.bpp.com/about-bpp/-/aboutBPP/carl-lygo
Peteaud
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Even in the middle of a very hot summer the rivers are too cold for me.
A gross distortion as usual, User482. In fact:-
- All universities grant their own professorships;
- BPP's status as a degree-awarding body is approved by an independent arm of Government and confirmed by the Privy Council;
- BPP's courses are recognised by the appropriate professional bodies and are amongst the most rigorous available. I know, because I have paid my own money to send people on them.
There are professors heading tiny departments in third rate universities up and down the country. Carl Lygo has a substantial career as an academic and adviser to HMG and on any unprejudiced view is well worth the title.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Cox got his chair in 2009, after only half a dozen Horizon programmes. Roberts's chair is in the Public Engagement in Science - specifically a media-don post. It seems to be Birmingham's attempt to follow in Oxford's footsteps with the egregious Dawkins and the excellent Du Sautoy.
User482 is absolutely right about BPP. There's a big difference between a university and a professional training firm, whatever the Privy Council might say.
(We pay money to BPP - it's a monopoly supplier of professional training courses in my profession - by dint of buying up the previous monopoly supplier.)
User482 is absolutely right about BPP. There's a big difference between a university and a professional training firm, whatever the Privy Council might say.
(We pay money to BPP - it's a monopoly supplier of professional training courses in my profession - by dint of buying up the previous monopoly supplier.)
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User482
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Mis-informed claptrap.
I'm very well acquainted with the workings of bpp, and the views of their staff on Carl lygo's professorship. They agree with me and not you. I'm not going to say any more on a public forum so pm me if you wish.
thom
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Incorrect description of quantum mechanics on the public airwaves cheapens it.
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User482
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Getting a job at a prestigious research laboratory doesn't get you a professorship, so we're left with communications as the reason - as srw points out, it happened after a very short time in the public conscience.
Regarding the public face of physics, you seem to have forgotten about Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
And so it might be because he is an outstanding research physicist rather than a telly don. I honestly don't know - I'm not qualified to judge either.
thom
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Funnily enough, there was a BBC programme last week on Professor Andre Geim, Nobel prize winner and probably the outstanding physicist in Manchester University.
thom
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Fair enough - I mean to rejoin the Serpentine Swimming Club this year. For £20 you can swim every day of the year in the Serpentine in Hyde Park in the morning. 200 yard lengths shared with Canada geese and swans.
