Quentin Cooper
| Quentin Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 Grimsby |
| Show | The Material World |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio 4 |
| Time slot | Thursday 16:30-17:00 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Previous show(s) | Connect, Kaleidoscope |
| Spouse(s) | Suba Subramaniam |
| Website | BBC Profile |
Quentin Cooper (born 1961, Grimsby) is a science journalist and current presenter of The Material World on Thursday afternoons and Connect on BBC Radio 4 less frequently on Wednesday nights. He also speaks at science festivals and lectures, and works regularly with science and educational organisations such as the Royal Society and the British Council.
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[edit] Early life
He attended a comprehensive school in Grimsby. He studied for a BSc in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. His Scottish education prompted him to join BBC Scotland.
[edit] Career
[edit] Publications
In October 1994, he wrote a book with Paul Sullivan, an old schoolfriend from Grimsby, called Maypoles, Martyrs, and Mayhem: 366 days of British customs, myths and eccentricities about superstitions (ISBN 978-0747518075).
[edit] Radio
At the BBC, he started as a producer in News and Current Affairs, then moved to produce youth programmes at Radio Scotland (in Glasgow), and Radio 5 in Manchester where he created programmes such as Hit The North. He also presented The Big Byte, a programme on Sunday lunchtimes on its successor Five Live from 1997.
From 1993, before the 1998 re-organisation of Radio 4, he often presented the 45-minute-long arts programme Kaleidoscope, as well as The Message on Radio 3. On Radio 4 he also presented a one-off science series called Catalyst (in 1997), the computer phone-in series Logged On (distant forerunner of Click On - the radio version of Click) in 1999, and the arts-based Talking Pictures in 1998. He began on Connect in April 1998 and on The Material World in October 1999. Connect has not been broadcast since 2007.
[edit] Personal life
On 26 September 2009, he married Suba Subramaniam at St Dunstan's church in Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire. His wife works for Cape Farewell, UK, an organisation that brings together artists and scientists.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Radio 4 profile
- BBC Radio 4's Material World (with audio archive of programmes)
- Connect
- Connect archive
- Interview with Quentin Cooper
- IMDb
- His father
[edit] Video clips
- Presenting at the 2007 Cheltenham Festival of Science
- The Noughties - was that it? (BBC3) November 2009
