Its probably best sticking to what you're doing at the moment.

I am not at all religious and do not belive in god but I am a Quaker. I am what is konwn as a non-theist quaker.

As for Plato you're right he is threr but never named. Penrose has often said he is a sort of Platonist.

Part of me would like to start to write about science again. But I haven't done so.

Sean,

I will talk a bit about how documentary uses imagery and how it tries to be both 'objective' but also can't help "alter our pere ptions." Shame you won't be there. We could get at each other in person too.

The idea of the universe having been set up with various mathematical equations in place seemed to have echoed your own progamme, Golem, interviewing physicists on the likelihood and nature of God.

Incidentally, are you religious at all?

The one name neither Al-Khalili's programme or your's mentioned, however, was Plato. Strange, I thought, because, from memory, he believed the whole universe was based on mathematical principles.

I Have already found mine, C4s Eqinoxe about 10 years ago did a brilliant one on "risk" and human perceptions of risk and then there is your "forbidden knowledge" a good strong narrative (madness driven by maths) on a very difficult issue to explain, but sadly High Anxieties was too muddled, interesting but a weak narrative.

So speaking at Bradford where they have an Imax maybe your thoughts should say something about technology and imagery, and how that can alter our perceptions, and how documentary can put our feet back on the ground so to speak? Avatar V Forbidden Knowledge!

Just a suggestion, don't take it too seriously. There is nothing wrong with lovely pictures btw.

I no longer watch Horizon. I find there is a slavish adherence to a set story structure which makes whatever they are telling me have the air of predictability. I can no longer stand the hyperole of the commentary and I find the house style of direction reminds me of expensive corporate film making. Lovely pictures but without meaning.

Just not my cup of tea.

I suspect your definition of brilliant and mine might be quite different. I hope you find yours.

I'll take a look at it if I have the chance. I have to admit I stopped buying books on chaos some time ago. They start to get very repetative after a couple of decades. But Jim is a nice man and his book on time was worth reading.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Go easy on the snide factor, it's unattaractive.

There is too much of everything these days thus the crème gets lost in the milk