BS: Do you think that some formats [of shows] work better for different types of scientific information?
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CW: I'm just trying to think, I've got these different shows going through my head now ((laughter))
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CW: I think one thing that we find, that we found quite difficult in a way, is, finding - like with some of the biological things, it's finding - ways of, of doing, exciting demos that you know, you can't really chop someone up. I mean, for example the Plant, Plant Power which is a game show all about plants. The reason I wrote that as a game show is, I thought - I had to write a show about plants, and I - and I'm ashamed to say I didn't find plants particularly exciting. I do, I do find them a lot more interesting now, but, when I was trying to write the show I thought well how do I make a show about plants really interesting. And so, there the game show was there because, you know, you can't do, exciting demos using plants, you know. So, but there were ways of getting round it in the game show. And, and I probably could have used some of those ideas to have done a, to have done a, straightforward show. But, having that sort of format, so that certainly added, added into it.
It's difficult. Different topic areas, I mean, I think in terms of age group, I think the, the infants, really like, like the shadow scenery, like the sort of act that, you know, if we take on a role then that, they love that sort of thing, the storytelling kind of aspect of things. Game shows, they don't really get, you know, so, I think different ages, it's more different age groups than different subject areas, really, is what works, I think.