Apr 10, 2007
Brian took John Barrowman ie Captain Jack from Dr. Who and Torchwood to CERN the other week. Those of you with iTunes will be able to listen to it here. Non-iTunes people can get it here. It’s very funny. And cheeky.
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- 2009-01-11 11:18:16I've only just noticed that people are looking for Jonathan Ross's Twitter stream via my blog, so thought I'd make it easier. He's here.
- 2009-01-01 12:36:16If you missed Brian's Horizon 'Do You Know What Time It Is?' last night, and you are in the UK, it's available on the BBC's iPlayer.
- 2008-12-03 13:32:49Friend him here! You need to be signed into Facebook, but if it still doesn't work for you then sign into Facebook and search for Jonathan Stephen Ross.
- 2008-11-23 16:29:13Phew! I can finally say something about this. Brian was up for Dawkins' job, down to the final three (or was it four?!), but didn't get it. And the winner is...
- 2008-10-30 15:29:51I was looking for a photo of me on Flickr and stumbled across these pics of Brian and me at SciFoo.
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A couple people in the comments have said they think Brian should take over from Richard Dawkins when he retires this year. If you're on Facebook, you can join the Brian Cox For Dawkins' Job group. Not started be me incidentally.
- 2008-09-15 14:05:46Honestly, this isn't a blog just about Brian. That would be really weird... but... indulge me just a bit longer.
Some of you may have seen the article about Brian in the Observer today. Now, you guys are intelligent and realise that not everything you read in a newspaper is accurate. This was made absolutely clear to me this morning as I was sitting in my bathrobe, hair all over the place, barefoot, all coffee breath, unshowered and read, "he married his American wife, glamorous TV presenter Gia Milinovich, in secret." :-/
Ah well...
- 2008-09-14 10:26:58
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Gia's a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is "cool".
production blog, was involved in the Indy4/Seesmic online junket and originated the 28 Weeks Later
QR Code DVD release. 
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John Barrowman scares me.
I saw him on the telly the other day. Charlie Brooker found a clip of him from about ten years ago. He looks exactly the same. He hasn’t aged a day. I suspect, therefore, that he is actually a fictional character.
Here’s part of the (very short) clip: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2222076057657466971
Brian appears to be spending a worrying proportion of his time with pretty boys!
Yep…But in this case a pretty boy who promises to show him how to use his ‘big ring’… *ahem*…
Jas, it *is* bizarre. I *totally* remember Barrowman from 10 years ago (slightly more, in fact) as he was presenting a teen entertainment programme. As *I* was presenting one at the time I religiously watched every other one and Barrowman being American stuck in my mind. I can’t remember which show he was on though- in my mind it was ITV Saturday morning, but as I’ve got to go and pack for my trip to Moscow tomorrow I don’t really have the time to Google…
I think “holy moly” describes it perfectly. x)
My favorite part about the podcast is that I can actually understand a lot of what Brian’s talking about. I have a feeling if it were someone else I’d end up completely lost, but he’s got a gift when it comes to explaining such complex ideas.
I got a good chuckle out of the “I hope they appear tomorrow. I’d love it. I think.”
Anyhow… I subscribed. It was wonderful. Excellent first episode! =)
(By the way, the info for that episode says “Dr Brain Cox” instead of “Brian.”)
John Barrowman has definitely aged, he’s just gotten better looking with each passing year. Damn disturbing how some people manage to do that.
It was Live and Kicking that John used to present. :)
And yes, it really is odd how little he’s aged…and despite stopping Physics after Standard Grade, I understood most of what Brian was saying – makes a very nice change. ;)
the Big Crunch has happened at CERN
http://www.tdg.ch/pages/home/tribune_de_geneve/english_corner/news/news_detail/(contenu)/52291
if you can’t get your head around that /(contenu)/ contents corner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6522189.stm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93279914@N00/457605238/
our boy Dr. B talks about the Big Bang in Edinburgh for the Glasgow Herald….
Ok those who don’t have iTunes and are Flash can give it a try here but it’s under development and it’s 27min 33 secs long.
http://www.sueridermanagement.co.uk/presenters/briancox/showreels/briancox_aud_2004_content.html
http://johnbarrowman.net/outabout/kickinabout/cern.html
John Barrowman’s website has been updated with photos of his visit to CERN and a link to the mp3 file.