Brian Cox is one of the new generation of science presenters that don’t look like crazy scientists should. Young and hip, these new sciensters are media savvy and tv friendly. Professor Cox, formerly a member of ‘D-Ream’, is the latest in a long line of rock star astronomers and physicists spanning that universe from Brian May to, er, Brian Cox.‘Wonders of the Universe’ (BBC2) takes us out of the Solar System and asks the really big questions that ‘thetvrevieguy’ likes to have explained for him in…really…simple…terms and on this front, Cox doesn’t disappoint. That’s not to say Cox talks down to his audience; this is really complicated stuff, and as Cox himself said, some of the material is barely skating undergraduate physics let alone heavy duty equations (thank God) and jargon-filled discussions. Instead (and this is something the BBC has good form on) graphics and narration tell the story of how and why we’re all here. He addresses the really big questions; what happened before the big bang? How will it all end? Do aliens roam our planet in disguise? (ok, ‘thetvreviewguy’ made up the last one but you get the picture). Light years ahead of other tv space/science programmes.
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