Post by charmbrights on Jan 7, 2015 14:10:54 GMT
Will Self's walk round the Large Hadron Collider (Radio 4 13:45 Mon 5th - Fri 9th inclusive) at CERN is the nadir of the 15 minutes inserts between real programmes so far. He seems to have approached this task with the specific intention of deriding CARN and its employees. Clearly the CERN employees are demoralised by his attitude to them, and his apparently deliberate lack of understanding. I realise that this programme has been carefully been constructed to deride particle physics, but the scripts also demean Will Self - he comes across as believing that it is clever to be ignorant; he claims in response to every statement by anyone on the CERN staff that he does not understand a word of what they are saying, and seems to be proud of it.