On TV tonight

[Laurie61]

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1st of 3 episodes at 8pm. BBC4

Professor Danielle George takes three British inventions - the light bulb, the telephone and the motor - and shows how to hack, adapt and transform them to do extraordinary things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wgf6g

 

[proactive]

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1st of 3 episodes at 8pm. BBC4

Professor Danielle George takes three British inventions - the light bulb, the telephone and the motor - and shows how to hack, adapt and transform them to do extraordinary things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wgf6g

An academic version of the A Team then?

 

[Laurie61]

Health and safety have toned things down a bit from the 70's/80's

 

[John Marwood]

The Bourne trilogy should be on every week

In fact it probably is

 

[Laurie61]

ITV 3

 

[Laurie61]

Digging for Britain

BBC 4 23:00 - 00:00

Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Matt Williams present 2014's most outstanding archaeology.

In the summer, archaeologists have been unearthing our history in hundreds of digs across Britain. They have gone to extraordinary lengths to uncover long lost treasures - retelling our story in a way only archaeology can.

With unique access to some of the country's best digs, our teams have been self-shooting their excavations to make sure the audience is there for every moment of discovery.

also on i player.

 

[littleme]

Wasn't that on yesterday @Laurie61? I'm sure I watched it at about 9pm last night (Wednesday).

 

[Laurie61]

Wasn't that on yesterday @Laurie61? I'm sure I watched it at about 9pm last night (Wednesday).

You are right, it was on earlier this week. I had not spotted it

 

[Gramaisc]

You are right, it was on earlier this week. I had not spotted it

Never mind. Archaeology usually goes out-of-date quite slowly.

 

[littleme]

Phew! Thought I was going loopy!

 

[Withnail]

Was originally on Beeb 2 -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b051htk1/digging-for-britain-series-3-1-east

 

[Laurie61]

Le Mans 24hr, on Eurosport 1 and around the interweb.

 

[proactive]

Eurosport have the most annoying commentators for Le Mans.

 

[Laurie61]

Eurosport have the most annoying commentators for Le Mans.

Yes, although I am not that keen on any of the current motor sport commentators. Bring back James Hunt.

 

[Gramaisc]

Yes, although I am not that keen on any of the current motor sport commentators. Bring back James Hunt.

Or Raymond Baxter.

 

[Laurie61]