BS: Who, was it Brian Delf you said or?
SB: yes, yes.
BS: How have you changed your methods since he was there.
SB: Well we've had to put it into - we had to cover other sort of science areas which were not so easy to do the sort of traditional lecture demo style shows. He was - he is a physicist so he did some great shows on physics and we still use some of his things today - his ideas. When you're talking about topics like - Ourselves and The Body and other things they don't always lend themselves to that. So we've been really looking for all sorts of ways to introduce topics. We use many different styles - especially with the younger children the storytelling and the puppets and the shadow screen for example. All of those are fairly recent developments. And now we've got the use of sort of better facilities and the PowerPoint and sound effects and special lighting. All of those things are quite new as well and I think that's the way forward. To use more sort of dramatic - effects in some of our shows, that really - help the children to remember - things. I think, I think that's part of of our thing.
It sounds very basic but helping children to remember things, is quite important. Because sometimes they're bombarded with so much stuff that they don't remember it. And if it's part of the curriculum we want to be helping the teacher to back up what they're learning. And I think that that's - making something dramatic, you know, switching the lights off and having bang or something. I don't know. Things like that I think - makes it a real show, then not just someone having a chat with you about - pushes and pulls that you know. I would want to think that it is more of a show. Because we all do that. If we go to the theatre we remember - the EXCITING - bits. So - yeah that's a bit of it. To make things more exciting. But really, Brian's original shows - are the ones that we've based it on, you know. So he was the founder - of the theme weeks.