Brian cox carl sagan biography
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Life, the universe and Brian Cox
Brian Cox chats with ABC's Genelle Weule about being a rock star scientist, David Attenborough and a close encounter with a curious leopard.
Brian Cox was taught how to relate to this lion cub by its handler, but dealing with a stalking leopard was a different experience. (Source: Wonders of Life)
Becoming a nature documentary presenter wasn't Brian's first choice of career — he originally trained as a particle physicist.
How did you get into television presenting?
It was basically an accident. I was at CERN working away as a post doc and was interviewed for a BBC documentary and they sort of liked what I said so they interviewed me for another documentary and another one. Then I made a small program about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and then made a couple of Horizon documentaries and came in that way.
Who has influenced your approach to making science documentaries?
In some ways I'm quite old fashioned. I was heavily influenced by Carl Sagan particularly by Cosmos back in 1980 when I was 12 years old. And the thing I think Sagan did beautifully was present the science, but he also had an agenda.
He felt, rightly in my view, and very strongly that the scientific world view, the scientific approach to problems is vi
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Carl Sagan
Physicist Brian Cox tells Matthew Parris how Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show changed his life.
As a boy of 13, Brian stared at his screen every Wednesday evening, as Carl Sagan took him on a journey across the Cosmos.
The programme was a ground-breaking piece of TV by a brilliant young scientist who could be inspiring and infuriating in equal measure.
Sagan was a complex character.
Driven to succeed, he came from a relatively poor background to become a millionaire, and one of the most influential scientists of his era.
His popularity left him open to both criticism and jealousy amongst his colleagues, and whilst he was passionate about the need to educate the populace, he could also be arrogant and dismissive of his fellow scientists.
So just how good a scientist was he, and what is his legacy?
With insight from Keay Davidson, Sagan's biographer, on the line from California.
Producer: John Byrne
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010.
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