Poor old science. Despite being responsible for the greatest invention known to man, the television, selling science to a TV audience is not as easy as it should be. The sad truth is that someone has to be able to stop channels being changed once the "s-word" is mentioned. Who better placed than the presenter? It was so different in the 1950s, when the BBC had a captive audience. Perhaps this is one reason that the presenters were, for want of a better word, dull. Read more