An Evening with Adam Rutherford

On Wednesday 5 June, Adam Rutherford will be in Devizes as part of the 2024 Devizes Arts Festival. A pre-eminent and award-winning broadcaster, Adam is a regular on BBC Radio 4. He often presents Start the Week and his popular series The Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry was on air for a decade. An advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), Adam’s talks, along with his internationally bestselling book How to Argue with a Racist, challenge racist rhetoric with hard scientific data to show how science and history is a powerful ally against bigotry.

Click here for more details of ‘An Evening with Adam Rutherford.’

 
 

Professor Turi King to speak at Cheltenham Science Festival

The growing popularity of genetic testing has created worldwide databases that allow us to ask previously impossible questions. Professor Turi King helps people find answers to life-changing questions about their ancestry and shares the latest advances in genetic genealogy. She will be speaking at Cheltenham Science Festival on Tuesday 4 June at 3pm. Click here for more details and to book.

 
 

Jaguar Journals with Lizzie Daly on Sky Nature

Jaguar Journals is now available to watch in the UK on Sky Nature. This five part documentary series started on 2 June. Episode two will go out on Sunday 9 June at 5pm.

The series follows expert wildlife biologist and TV personality, Lizzie Daly as she joins groundbreaking monitoring projects. Using the latest tagging-technology, Lizzie uncovers exciting new insights into animal behaviour and reveals how to protect wildlife.

Each episode returns to the leading cast of jaguar characters in gripping storylines that will keep you coming back for more.

 
 

Doug Allan to speak at St.George's Bristol

One of the greatest underwater filmmakers of our age, Doug Allan will be speaking at St.George’s Bristol on Monday 28 October 2024 at 7pm.

He’ll look back on his 35-year career, charting his successes and setbacks, and also share his perspective on climate change and its impacts on the world’s wild places. What change of emphasis and direction should we now be incorporating in wildlife films?

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Benedict Allen's film to premiere in Bristol

Few people can claim to have sparked a media manhunt, but when explorer Benedict Allen went missing in Papua New Guinea in 2017 he hit the headlines across the world. Now, you can hear his dramatic story in full for the first time.

The world premiere of Benedict’s film 'Missing in Papua New Guinea' tells the whole, unvarnished truth of his solo expedition to Papua New Guinea.

Join Benedict at St George’s Bristol on Monday 7 October at 7pm.

Photo credit: Martin Hartley

 
 

The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelation airs this Sunday

The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelation sees Professor Alice Roberts uncover the ground-breaking science being used by computer scientist Brent Seales as he tries to decipher ancient scrolls found at the site of Herculaneum in Italy. Attempts to physically open them have reduced almost all of them to dust, but Brent is combining cutting-edge scanning techniques with his own artificial intelligence software to attempt to teach a computer to read inside the scrolls without ever having to open them.

The programme airs this Sunday (12 May) on Channel 5 at 9pm.

 
 

Rabbit roundabout

A roundabout in Aberdeen could go viral after Libby Penman gave them a starring role in BBC Scotland nature show Landward.

The roundabout, one of Aberdeen’s busiest, has been completely taken over by the colony of rabbits, with one local resident telling Libby they have been there “as long as I can remember.”

“It’s not the most scenic location I’ve been to to film wildlife,’ commented Libby.

Landward (2024, E5) is available to stream across the UK on BBC iPlayer now.