BBC4 tonight

[optima21]

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (from 8pm tonight)

Don't know if anyone else watches these (seems to be a christmas tradition for me), but they are science demonstrations for children, in a way that makes science interesting. Ive been watching these for years. Tonight's edition is about batteries and if its possible to power a mobile phone for a year.

at the start of the programme they demonstrated the power of batteries they attempted to do some arc welding using a couple of 12v batteries.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqq


ohh and at 9pm on bbc4 tonight is James May as the disassembler

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086t7c9

 

[Simon Melton]

Always watch these, very entertaining !!!

 

[Member 66061]

The RICL's are a peek into whats happening in our failing education system and the type of indoctrination thats happening.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Sod it, I missed tonights, but I will watch it on catch up. Always interesting!

 

[ronan]

They seem to repeat these a lot, they were on last night as well.

 

[Simon Melton]

They seem to repeat these a lot, they were on last night as well.

The one I watched last night was different, there are 3 different episodes :-)

 

[wristpin]

Three interesting episodes but not available on Iplayer at present. Worth watching out for IMO
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7h1w

 

[colnerov]

Hi, These are repeated in the early hours of the morning and very often will be repeated again within the next couple of weeks so keep an eye out for them.

Colin

 

[Mee]

Rarely watch TV these days, much more interesting things to do; if I were to watch TV its the kind of thing I like.

 

[penfold]

They were a bit so-so this year; better than most of the dross on TV but that's not saying much. The Royal Institution website has a lot of old Christmas lectures available as well as other lectures on interesting things.