It’s butt-ugly, but I find the usability better. Previously everything was so white that I found it difficult on occasion to distinguish between windows above and below. The heavier drop shadows and rounded corners are actually quite helpful

> harms predicted by radiation models are unscientific,

Where are your scientific alternative models?

> Rooftop solar accounts for more deaths.

On the other hand, me falling of my roof, isn't going to put sheep farmers livelihoods at risk 1,800 miles away

I don't have a C-level to hand. My daughter's university laptop, however is just here...

Child-level works, too.

“Hello again”

There are quite a few in that vein - Jonathan Millers’ The Body in Question; Attenborough ‘s original Life On Earth

You do realise that those notes, are notes provided to him by the experts he is talking to, right?

Adds a bit of seasoning

I don’t think you need a particular depth of knowledge. You need someone willing to do the pre-work -clearly there are notes from and conversations with the contributors beforehand, someone with curiosity to learn about things outside their areas of expertise. A good journalist would be fine

I agree. It's almost all prep. In fact that's exactly what I recall him saying in an interview once, that he still gets stressed by the amount of reading he has to do before each and every episode. He never winged it and rely on his knowledge alone.

And making broad connections across topics wasn't his style anyway. He's a legend but the show can totally go on without him, and it should.

He very often brings other knowledge to bear in conversations that clearly wasn't just prep work for the specific topic. He's not strong on science but he has a firm grounding in literature, philosophy and history that isn't common these days.

I always hoped they would do a behind the scenes episode on what they do to create one episode - pre-reading, selection of experts, discussion of questions to ask etc.

I for one would love to hear what refreshments they would like after the recording.

Now also a quite good West End musical

Couldn't enjoy it at all. One of the first scenes shows MI6 officers, during WWII, making plans on a post-1991 world map, with reunified Germany and independent Baltic countries, etc. Kills immersion for me immediately, along with the gender politics every few minutes in a history show. Maybe I'm old fashioned.