Former Faculty Student on BBC TV – Anne Elkins from the Global Health Degree

The Big Food Rescue (Documentary)

Programme following two men on a mission to change Britain's food habits. Outraged by the amount of fresh food that is binned in Britain, Robin Aitken and David Cairns are running a new charity that aims to take produce due to be thrown out by the supermarkets and divert it to people who need fresh food the most. They need to sign up supermarkets and wholesalers and find suitable charities that could benefit from the food. Meanwhile, trustee Michael tries to make every penny count in the search for a new van. Each episode looks at a specific aspect of the project. This new five part programme airs on BBC1 at 9.15-10.00am every day from Monday 28 December to Friday 2 December 2016

Anne Elkin is the Project Coordinator for the Felix project which is the subject of this series. Anne undertook the BSc Global Health and Humanitarian Relief degree here in the Faculty of Health and went on to take a Masters in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM.The work that the Felix project does can be viewed on their website 

A tribute to Paul Vaughan (by Dr Bernie Barnicoat)

Presenter blessed with a voice that became universally admired: Paul Vaughan (24 October 1925 - 16 November 2014) was a British journalist, radio presenter (of art and science programmes) throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and a narrator of many BBC television science documentaries, among them Horizon.

“When God speaks, he uses Paul Vaughan’s voice,” was the memorable verdict of one commentator.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Vaughan’s was certainly the voice of the new secular god of science, a counterpart to David Attenborough in natural history. Like God, and unlike Attenborough, he was unseen, providing the voiceover for the BBC documentary series Horizon from 1968 to 1995, or working on radio programmes such as New Worlds, Science in Action and Discovery

From 1968 until 1995 he was the main narrator of the BBC's main science documentary series Horizon. Science and technology were rapidly developing in these decades, notably in biology and electronics, and consequently there was much to report for the Horizon series. Horizon in the 1970s and 1980s was a heavyweight science documentary series, and these years were its heyday.

Paul Vaughan

On the BBC World Service he presented Science in Action, and Discovery, and on Radio 4 New Worlds.

He was the “voice of science” on British Television for over two decades.

It would be good to insert the Guardian obit when it is published. It has not appeared so far.

Here are some links to YouTube videos of complete episodes of Horizon:

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

All three were narrated by this man; His voice had a tone and a quality to it.  If ever a voice could be described as 'listenable' it was his.

New edition of Martini's Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology

The new global edition of the physiology text by Frederick Martini has recently been published.

Dr Bernie Barnicoat reviewed and revised the end of chapter questions (hundreds of them) for this edition and is one of two UK contributors acknowledged in the text.

This book achieves sales of hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology  10^th Edition - Pearson Global Edition

Frederick R Martini, Judi L Nath, Edwin Bartholomew

Pearson – Publisher

ISBN 978-1-292-05721-7

Bernie Barnicoat