Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg  este numele unui prezentator BBC de exceptie. 

Dupa ce l-a fortat sa isi paraseasca slujba de prezentator pe care o avea deja de 10 ani din cauza aventurilor politice, BBC-ul i-a oferit totusi sansa sa isi creeze o emisiune, intr-un timp "mort" al postului de radio.  Iar el a creat una taman cum isi dorea.

Bragg a creat o emisiune care ulterior a fost etichetata "tremendously cerebral" si care va fi prima oferita in arhiva completa pe site-ul BBC; In Our Time. Trei invitati care impreuna cu el dezbat o anumita tema artistica, stiintifica, filozofica etc. Ma fascineaza documentarea pe care reuseste moderatorul sa o aiba de fiecare data.

When quantum mechanics was developed in the early XXth Century reality changed forever.

In the quantum world particles could be in two places at once; they apparently disappeared for no reason and reappeared in unpredictable locations. They even acted differently according to whether we were watching them.

It was so shocking that Erwin Schrödinger, one of the founders of quantum theory said "i don't like it and i'm sorry i ever had anything to do with it". He even developed and experiment with a cat to show how absurd it was. 

Quantum theory was absurd. It disagreed with the classical physics of Newton and Einstein and it clashed with our experience of the everyday world. Footballs do not disappear without reason, cats do not split into two and shoes do not act differently when we're not looking at them. Or do they?...

80 years later we're still debating whether the absurd might actually be true.

--M. Bragg intro to In Our Time [2002].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes