The Chicken has to profess to being all a-cluck about a new series is starting 9pm tomorrow night on BBC4 – Shock and Awe, the story of Electricity. It has been made by BBC in collaboration with the Open University – see a sneak preview here.
What would we do without electricity, I ask you? We take it so completely for granted, and yet its discovery and innovation are really very recent history. From William Gilbert’s early experiments, via Nikola Tesla’s visionary innovations – and now chickens are doing their bit for the energy crisis with poultry droppings being used to generate electricity!
Thanks to Tony Buckley at the Science & Technology Facilities Council for alerting us and for his help with Hannah’s TESLA GIRL feature film script, which excitingly has just been shortlisted for a Sundance/Sloan commissioning grant!
