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Gareth Jones: How Everything You Know Could Be Wro

Note: This review is from 2005

Review by Steve Bennett

After 15 years, the former Gaz Top is still happily fronting bite-sized science items on How! And here he remains  terribly cheery and enthusiastic in that children's presentery way.

This show seems to be a stage pilot for a TV show, complete with animated title sequence and a video camera recording the show.

What's it about?  What it says in the title: Lots of things we 'know' are actually wrong and several are demonstrated visually and entertainingly.

There are more than secven colours in the rainbow; and compasses don't always point north. They don't always point to magnetic north either.

Jones seems an amiable chap and keen to please. At school, he was taught physics in Welsh and dreamt of presenting Tomorrow's World.

The barest bones of his autobiography are inserted into what would, if presented by a woman, be a jolly hockey sticks kinda show. I half expected Joyce Grenfell to leap out in a gymslip.

It’s a pleasant entertainment that does what it sets out to do. The world still turns.

Review date: 1 Jan 2005
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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