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Material World (radio programme)

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A typical episode covered three or four topics, giving each 7–10 minutes. For many years the programme was divided into two sections of fifteen minutes on separate topics. It took the form of interviewing a guest scientist or engineer. Cooper often ended the programme with a terrible scientific
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conflicted with BBC impartiality rules and meant he could no longer present BBC programmes. He was replaced with Quentin Cooper, who presented the programme until its end in 2013.
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Many past programmes are available for online listening via the programme's website. Some sequential sets of programmes were made in collaboration with the
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On 14 June 2013 it was announced that the show was to be cancelled and replaced by a new show,
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From 5 April 2010 the programme was repeated on Monday evenings at 21.00, the former slot of
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was one of the BBC's main conduits for up-to-date scientific news, along with
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was a weekly science magazine programme broadcast on Thursday afternoons on
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In September 2000, Phillips was told that his close links with the
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Quentin Cooper
Sue Nelson
Website
Podcasts
BBC Radio 4
Quentin Cooper
Trevor Phillips
Imperial College
Labour Party
Costing the Earth
5 Live
webstreaming
webcast
Inside Science
Frontiers
Science in Action
Bang Goes the Theory
pun
Open University
Association of British Science Writers
Ahmed, Kamal
"BBC bans Trevor Phillips for political link"
The Guardian
"Introducing Inside Science"
BBC Radio 4's Material World official site
BBC Radio 4's Material World Archive page
Co-operation with the Open University
Assistance with the Open University
So You Want To Be A Scientist?
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