Tom Ranson

Had a lot of fun making "Pompeii - Life in the City" with the brilliant and lovely duo, Kate Lister and @thehistoryguy. Watch on My5 now!

my daughter is a fan of this for the trickier times table... 7 x 8 ... does not compute !

Didn't know about the nuclear issue. Feels like something UK and France should look at.

I guess this is what the end feels like. You're right, it's an unbelievable tragedy. But... Whenever I've filmed at NASA I've always wished Europe had an equivalent offering. Time for Europe and ESA to step up.

Da Vinci Resolve is free to download and if you watch a few YouTube videos you should be able to make a start

Tough times for soap writers. Anybody who is effected can get in touch with the @writersguildgb.bsky.social in confidence.

Thanks for this Hendrik

I'm fact checking a documentary script right now - often wonder if we could somehow (with blockchain technology?) digitally watermark / stamp facts from trusted sources - like the economist, FT, BBC - to show that they have been formally checked. Create a market for truth.

I'm fact checking a documentary script right now - often wonder if we could somehow (with blockchain technology?) digitally watermark / stamp facts from trusted sources - like the economist - to show that they have been formally checked. Create a market for truth.

fair point - my daughter gets infuriated by the lack of snow here. She's only ever built two snowmen at home and she's 8!

BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 7, Iron Age Revealed Archaeologists unearth Iron Age Britain’s most spectacular burial in Yorkshire.

A show I directed a few years ago is repeated on BBC 2 tonight. "Digging for Britain - Iron Age Revealed" features a truly amazing Yorkshire chariot burial and the brilliant
@prehistorian.bsky.social. You can watch here on iPlayer too! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Sea of Faith - The Human Animal Don Cupitt explores how Darwin's theory of evolution seemed to make the idea of special creation by God impossible.

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Kubrick, Lucas, Spielberg and Rylance were/are all followers of Jung. I've always wanted to make a film exploring the power of his ideas. Here Don Cupitt does a far better job than I ever could. Well done the BBC for resurfacing this.

And my evolving wave function is nothing but me ?

Rylance summoning the giants with is bin lid in Jerusalem was one of the most awesome things I have ever seen. I love Sean Bean but Rylance is pretty much unbeatable.

Exactly... Saying that, there aren't a lot of factual docs on the BBC anymore but that's another story.

A good start would be to reduce the ridiculous filming fees. It's crazy that it's prohibitively expensive to show the museum's treasures on television.

Really interesting interview - Adam Flemming's point about human nature is a good one, these platforms will always end up as mirrors to our collective nature - good and bad. That's why they need to be curated responsibly.

Your dad's photo is special. Reminds me of Callanish, a place where the power of the moon is made obvious too.

anyhow hope you're well. enjoyed the new series. Alice, Suzy and Laura should be very proud.

that must have been it !

wasn't there some issue re. the ejector seat and your height?

I remember that day - was very worried about your kneecaps!

I have an Oxford chemistry degree for precisely this reason - I grew up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s when the steel works were still open, my Dad had a Chemistry PhD and worked in the metals industry. The economics of all that loomed large in my world without me realising it.

I’m old enough to remember when AskJeeves and Altavista were suddenly abandoned in the space of weeks or days, ditto MySpace, it can happen

We all need more Marcus du Sautoy - as you say he is brilliant.

David Davis runs 5 Acts in Cardiff, excec'd Industry. James Van der Pool is an Exec at BBC Science, Exec'd the recent Einstein drama doc on Netflix.

I was in Pompeii last month shooting a new documentary for Channel 5. Spectacular place.