Dawkins still unfinished but nearly there. Time was taken up watching The Virtual Revolution presented by Dr. Aleks Krotoski up there. This was meaty stuff - no whizzy little sideshows - just well-presented narration and opinion from the great and good of CyberVille, Terra. And straight into it my wife learned something - that www stood for World-Wide Web. She lost interest after that and started on the practical lessons before the end of the theory. A funny bit of prime-time for a Saturday night, much more suited to BBC4 but BBC2 does have occasional throwbacks to its high-brow glory years every so often.
In best novelistic time-shifting mode I now return to the programme we watched before this which has filled the BBC4 Monday brain-box slot (Mind Games etc) - Only Connect - a fiendish quiz of linking four, sometimes apparently random words/phrases/pictures/pieces of music/smells. Well maybe not smells but after 3D I am sure that odour transmission is next on the list of gimmicks. Last night was between a team of neuroscientists and one of rugby fans. The former only needed an extra geeky member to be the main cast of The Big Bang Theory and from the start it was obvious that they did not care whether they won or lost. They did of course win.
An example - what links :
Cream, Quote Marks, Tennis, Yellow Lines
Answers on a postcard - boiled sweet to first drawn - not valid outside Mozambique - offer expires July 1974.
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