Miracle of the plague year
September 21, 2020
I have stood in Trafalgar Square with a solitary pigeon as a man in a yellow high-vis jacket, a Harris Harrier on his arm, patrolled between the sparkling fountains, scaring away birds from non-existent tourists… Read on The article can also be read …
My friend Steve Hedges
September 7, 2020
My friend Steve Hedges zoologist, BBC producer of Pop Science and one of the two best interviewers I have known.
Launch of The Magicians
February 24, 2020
Fab launch of The Magicians at Daunt Books, Holland Park, London on 20 February. It’s always great to have party when a book is published. You invite hundreds in the hope you won’t be there on your own! Some people RSVP to say they are coming and for v …
The Magicians, Cambridge, 2 March
January 8, 2020
This the story of those who demonstrated the central magic of science: its ability to predict the existence of things never before suspected which, when searched for, turn out to actually exist in the Universe. This is the story of the magicians, who n …
The Magicians, Oxford, 29 Feb 2020
January 2, 2020
This the story of those who demonstrated the central magic of science: its ability to predict the existence of things never before suspected which, when searched for, turn out to actually exist in the Universe. This is the story of the magicians, who n …