People on television and radio who we actually like...

I'd get that seen to, Chris... Heavy weekend?

Ha! Lookalikes thread getting to me. :S

Bruce Parry's face & voice for some reason irritate the fuck out of me, I watch the shows for the content but feel tortured afterwards.

Also, 'being human' is absolutley terrible.

I hate Lost, but I like Kerley.

Saw an episode where he punches Josh Holloway character .. I cheered.

steve mcqueen
.
he was a god.

Robert Macfarlane,
on Natural world 8p,m now,
class.

I know this one. She's in Eastenders, isn't she?

Heather, is it?

jim al-khalili.

absolute legend. been a fan for a while now since his brilliant series on the elements a while back. great programmes. well paced, great presentation. no waffle, genuinely captivating. i wish i'd been able to see these when i was at uni. all i had was a pile of dry text books, unhelpful professors and a powerful sense that i was wasting my time by studying something so obscure and impractical that was academically beyond me. i eventually capitulated to popular opinion and gave up. this programe alone is proof positive, as far as i'm concerned, that tv these days in vastly superior than anything available in the 90s or before.

brian "how many times can i repeat myself withot actually saying anything" cox can fuck right off. go jim.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yb59m/sign/Everything_and_Nothing_Everything/

this episode is everything i struggled with doing cosmology as fat-headed student condensed into 60 minutes made accessible, understandable, incredible and without any unnecessary hyperbole, repetition or patronising wank. yes, brian "in't everything amazing!?" cox, i'm still looking at you. you irritating twat. great stuff.

also, raymond blanc makes very very 'appy.

...without any unnecessary hyperbole, repetition or patronising wank. yes, brian "in't everything amazing!?" cox, i'm still looking at you. you colossally irritating twat...

You'll like this then:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/03/stephen-collinss-cartoon-wonders-of-the-universe/

^ about right

haha. like.

but come on now people, don't be hating. he's not just dishy and mind meltingly super-intelligent and like, just so... WOW! but (get this!) he was in a BAND! i mean an actual band that was on top of the pops. And not just any old pop band. one of the COOLEST BANDS OF ALL TIME!!!

*Swoooon

haha harry hill's just done a jim al-khalili vs brian cox thing on tv burp which ended with jim singing helter skelter. legend.

Wrong thread, but I can't fucking stand Brian Cox.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/24-hours-in-ae/4od#3189258

Malcolm - the A&E Consultant at Kings - awesomely cool and calm, a total professional - check out how he takes the time to thank his team, and cares about his patients.

Makes 99.99% of our jobs pointless when you think what he, and his colleagues do day in, day out.

Nuff said.

Michael Mosely.
A good presenter, and an interesting man.
The most recent inside the human body is amazing.
truly stunning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Oliver

Neil Oliver, makes the UK look awesome.

xxx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Oliver

Neil Oliver, makes the UK look awesome.

xxx

neil oliver's an annoying, over-dramatic, posturing bellend who badly needs a haircut. he's the reason i can't watch that coast programme. i can't stand him.

there was a fantastic adam curtis documentary on the beeb this week called "all looked over by machines of loving grace". best thing i've seen on the telly box in ages. it was part one of a series, this one concentrating on the computer's role in economics, politics and philosophy starting with ayn rand, alan greenspan and the californian dot com pioneers following their progress though the asian miracle and subsequent collapse, the clinton era and up to the present day with the housing and banking crisis. brilliantly researched, scripted, presented and soundtracked. not a cliche in sight. it was just witty, thought provoking and totally engaging. best thing i've seen on teevee in a long, long time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/05/all_watched_over_by_machines_o.html

or, if you prefer, i'm sure neil oliver was standing on a hill, droning on about the highland clearnces whilsn't holding his hair out of eyes to a mournful background of "medieval battle noises" elsewhere on the beeb.

neil oliver??

Neil Oliver... Always with a bag. Whats in it?

lol

Neil Oliver... Always with a bag. Whats in it?

porridge oats, his fyfe and a runrig album.

Not sure if these are reposts but

really enjoying mark steel at the moment,

http://www.marksteelinfo.com/audiovideo/default.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j7522/Mark_Steels_in_Town_Episode_2/

and The Museum of Everything is fantastic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007k1gw/The_Museum_of_Everything_Series_1_The_History_of_Everything/

(his stand up, planet corduroy (search it on youtube) is great)

radio ftw