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Carol Vorderman
Guest Director of The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2009
Why did you decide to be Guest Director of the festival?
A: The Cheltenham Science Festival is fantastic. It’s quite an intimate science festival and it’s such a nice place to come to in all ways. I think it’s wonderful and this year I’m very proud to be Guest Director! What I love about the Cheltenham Science Festival is its purpose is to communicate science to the general public — be they children, or schools, or families. It is terribly important, even if you haven’t received a formal education in science that you begin to understand some of the issues.
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We’ve tagged this post with Carol Vorderman, interview, science on Thursday 11 June 2009.
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Mark Lythgoe, Co-director of The Times Cheltenham Science Festival, talked to Sue Harris about one of his festival highlights – Good Bugs, Bad Bugs by Mike Wilson, Professor of Microbiology at UCL.
I went to the most amazing talk I have been to in the last 2 years. The audience must have clapped for about 2 to 3 minutes continuously afterwards. I have never, ever felt that kind of electricity — when every single person in the audience just connected together, knowing that they had experienced a really special moment in their lives. Every single one of us would have walked out of that lecture theatre and looked at themselves and the world completely differently because of what I heard. It was one of the most unique experiences I have ever had.
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We’ve tagged this post with interview, Mark Lythgoe, science on Thursday 11 June 2009.
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If you love books, authors or anything literary then this blog post may be of interest to you…
Every year we look for volunteers to help us produce The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. Being the longest running Literature Festival in the world, we’ll be celebrating our 60th anniversary this year!
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We’ve tagged this post with jobs, literature, volunteer on Wednesday 10 June 2009.
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The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival schools programme is now open for booking.
view the Book It! brochure
and
book online
Read our earlier news post for highlights of this years programme featuring the biggest names in children’s literature.
Further booking details and a printable form are available in the back of the brochure. For more information contact Nicola Tuxworth on 01242 775822.
We’ve tagged this post with Book It!, education, literature, schools events on Wednesday 10 June 2009.
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The Times Cheltenham Science Festival drew to a close on Sunday in the same way that it had begun — with a bang. This time, it was the bang of drums as Darrin Mooney, drummer from successful rock band Primal Scream, pounded his way to exhaustion in the Pillar Room.
The purpose was to demonstrate changes in heart rate and oxygen uptake during a live performance. Steve Draper and Marcus Smith from the Clem Burke Drumming Project have been conducting research to find out whether drumming could provide real physical and mental health benefits.
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We’ve tagged this post with science, volunteer on Tuesday 9 June 2009.
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Sheila Hayman, the composer’s great-great-great-great niece writes in The Times about her talented ancestor, and the way his Jewish heritage was used in the 1930s to obliterate his name from Austro-German musical life.
The 2009 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival features a huge range of Mendelssohn’s glorious music in the bicentenary year of his birth — from Songs without Words for solo piano to the Violin Concerto performed by Vilde Frang, conductor Edward Gardner and the Halle. You can hear a piano trio, a piano quartet, two string quartets (one and two), a string quintet, the string octet, a selection of songs from mezzo Christianne Stotijn and Julius Drake, Hear My Prayer from Gloucester Cathedral Choir and two orchestral overtures (one and two).
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We’ve tagged this post with Mendelssohn, music on Tuesday 9 June 2009.
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All the big names descended on The Times Cheltenham Science Festival on Saturday. “The Cheltenham Science Festival is fantastic!” Carol Vorderman, Guest Director of the festival told us, adding; “They do get an awful lot of names here.” She scheduled two events for Saturday. In the first, she shared her passion for mathematics with children, and in the second she brought her brother Anton to talk about the impact that facial disfigurement can have.
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We’ve tagged this post with Carol Vorderman, Richard Hammond, Robert Winston, science on Monday 8 June 2009.
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It was a day of forward thinking at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival on Friday.
Being World Environment Day, it was appropriate that there were a number of events about our changing environment. Jonathon Porritt talked to Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Joan Ruddock, about whose responsibility it really is to tackle climate change.
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We’ve tagged this post with environment, Famelab, science on Sunday 7 June 2009.
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From hard-hitting personal stories about Alzheimer’s disease, to a belly-achingly funny poetry competition, The Times Cheltenham Science Festival has two very different sides. Visitors to the festival may be here for an entertaining day out and to take part in some of the many interactive activities. Or, they may want to discuss a serious scientific topic like the ethics of medical research and debate their views with some of the country’s most eminent scientists and opinion leaders.
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We’ve tagged this post with Discover Zone, Robert Winston, science on Saturday 6 June 2009.
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Mark Lythgoe, Festival co-director talks about the delight and excitement of the 2009 The Times Cheltenham Science Festival.
Photography by Conor Cahill for The Times Cheltenham Science Festival.
We’ve tagged this post with Mark Lythgoe, science on Saturday 6 June 2009.
