Acting in loco Bob the Skutterentis, there's a Dominic West appearance tonight at 9.00 on Beeb 4 as Howard Florey, the Australian who developed Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin into mass production. Breaking the mould If that weren't enough, V for Vendetta and X2 are on at the same time on different channels. Oh woe is me. My VCR won't be able to cope.
Really an incredibly important but under-recognised man. I know if I asked my academic peers they'd likely not know his name or importance.
Dam my bbc 4 has a crap signel and my chargers gone on my lap top. Will have to some how get rid of the family so i can watch.
One can only hope. (yeah, I may live in Yorkshire *now* but I'm still Scottish - kept the accent and everything)
Sorry proud English women here but have been told my great grandmother was from wet and windy Scotland.
thanks for the reminder on thename iwas going to watch on the tv at the hospital but bbc four doesn't appear on there. so i've asked my brother to record it for me.
You need to get full electronics in your room Bob. Plasma screen, multiple blu ray and skyplus, xbox, playstation and one of those mini fans to cool you down. And a toaster.
This is freaky. It's like the entire world wants me to watch this programme. I just checked my email before coming here, and found a circular from my old college's alumni network pointing this out to me (Florey was a Fellow there). Clearly, your academic peers don't attend a proper university. Seriously though, Florey was indeed a man worth knowing about - shrewd enough to recognise the intrinsic significance of Fleming's paper and innovative & commercial enough to figure out how to scale things up.
I'm mostly concerned by BBC Four's proven ability to take any subject that should be interesting and turn it into something mind numbingly dull. Usually by having 20 minutes of talking heads from leading experts on tapestry weaving or similar.