Feynman

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

BBC 2 2130 today

more value for the license fee

[Zucchini]

Wow. Thanks for that - he was quite bright really, wasn't he?
And the transcripts of his lectures are legendary.

[johnb]

I do urge people to watch this. Not only was Feynman remarkable physicist (and Nobel Prize winner) but he was a brilliant lecturer and communicator as well.

"Quite bright" is classic British understatement!

[Zucchini]

"Quite bright" is classic British understatement!

Quite so - so I'll change that to "genius"!

[johncorrigan]

I do urge people to watch this. Not only was Feynman remarkable physicist (and Nobel Prize winner) but he was a brilliant lecturer and communicator.

They're re-showing 'Challenger' before the doc, which I found very enjoyable and interesting. I thought William Hurt did a really good job as a Washington weary Feynman approaching his end.

[french frank]

Ah, I was in the process of providing a link to johnb's earlier post when my cousin arrived with some tomato plants. I see all enthusiasts have now been united. I think there was an even earlier thread that was recommending Feynman's writings.

[johncorrigan]

BBC 2 2130 today

more value for the license fee

I was looking forward to this but found it a bit disappointing in the end - it felt like a bit of a cheap, slapped together effort, disguised by an over-the-top music soundtrack. Did no service to RF at all.

[Pikaia]

I enjoyed the programme too, but I also found the soundtrack very irritating. Annoying background music is all too common these days. They even put drumming on gardening programmes - just what you want to hear when you are admiring a garden!

I have been a fan of Feynman for many years - his book "Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman" is wonderful. I love the story of how he was classified as mentally defective by the US Army!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

no programme could live up to this subject but this one was a disappointment in some measure - soundtrack and no explanation of the diagrams [they hate math at the bbc] .... i did not need to know he was amusing so much as to understand his brilliance in substantive terms, not because we say so .... still marks for trying [alpha -]