An interesting mixture from Gareth Jones, presenter of television’s How2 science programme and formerly Gaz Top of Get Fresh Saturday morning television fame.
Part autobiographical, part science experiments, Jones has created an entertaining and educational show that would do well to tour, attracting a teenage school audience.
Opening by dispelling a few urban myths - something of a theme at this year’s Festival Fringe - Jones tells us it was not Churchill who we heard reading the famous “We shall fight them on the beaches” speech and that burping is not a polite way of thanking an Arab family for dinner. Now you know.
He does a few science-based tricks, asking a pretty well-informed audience how the results were obtained and then correcting them when they give answers they have heard before and explaining why they are wrong.
Interspersed with this is a story of how he went from coolest boy in school through a series of failed A-levels to becoming roadie for Welsh rockers The Alarm and finally on to television presenting as his alias, Gaz Top. Clips of Gaz and his marvellous co-host Gilbert the Alien will bring back memories.
Jones is an energetic but enthralling presenter, a younger, funkier Johnny Ball. He leaps around the stage, encouraging audience participation and showing genuine enthusiasm for his subject.
Science, fun, fame and celebrity - what better recipe for a show that will entrance teenagers and their parents?
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