Current Projects

Work is almost always a rewarding mixture of television and radio programmes in widely-separated areas - at least, widely separated within mathematics and computing!
Currently in production are:

The Long Word Club

This is a thirty-minute audio cassette for an Open University 'access' course in the mathematics, science and technology areas. The warmth of the welcome given to the first cassette in this series, on measurement, has spurred the course team on to consider the same treatment for the module on scientific units - energy, work and so on.
If you're interested, try downloading the script (about 23K as a zipped Word95 file, together with the template)

Complements from Heidelberg

Not a spelling mistake! The subject matter is metric and topological spaces, and as well as some (hopefully) stunning graphics (that's Antoine's Necklace on the left and the Alexander Horned Sphere) a team of us have been attending a scientific conference in Heidelberg in mid-October. Partly to collect expert interviews, and partly to document just how it is that mathematicians in general, and topologists in particular, go about their work. Star filming location for this programme (which is a video-cassette and unlikely to be broadcast) was in a gents' toilet at the Newton Institute in Cambridge!
There's a portfolio of key frames from the graphics currently being developed, including animation.

Eight Favourite Equations

This is the 1997 series of the OU's popular mathematics radio series Maths Miscellany. We don't have transmission dates for these yet. The team of eight of us is applying the usually creativity to bringing to life a number of well-known 'equations'. I've drawn the Normal Distribution, and eⁱ=-1.

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