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Congratulations… to Inside Nature’s Giants — BAFTA winner

1 month
3 weeks ago

Inside Nature’s Giants won the category for Best Factual at the BAFTAs! You can catch up with series producer David Dugan and presenter Simon Watt at our event:
Inside Nature’s Giants, Wednesday 9 June (tickets still available)

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NESTA FameLab 2009 — results of the UK Final

1 year
1 month ago

1st place: Tom Whyntie

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At 4:30 PM 5th June, the 10 NESTA FameLab finalists took to the stage in front of a huge audience and judges Kathy Sykes, Mark Lythgoe, Leanne Klein and Mark Henderson in the Main Arena at the Cheltenham Science Festival. In the two hours that followed, the audience were treated to a range of captivating, fascinating and humorous talks that took them from malaria to autism, hip replacements to pheromones via a spot of quantum physics, and, for the first time in the history of FameLab, a three minute rhyming poem about bacteria and food poisoning! The atmosphere was tense as the judges stepped out to make their decision and the audience votes were counted.

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We’ve tagged this post with , , , on Wednesday 17 June 2009.