Professor Brian Cox uses this year's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture to address the main challenges in bringing science to television. He tackles the risks in simplifying science for a television audience, the perils of abandoning fact in the name of balance and the importance of making science on television intellectually and emotionally engaging.
Bettany Hughes uses the 2011 Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture to argue that history on television is thriving and enjoying a new golden age. She explores why programme makers should look to the ancients for inspiration, how television can become an active player in the historical process itself and why people are looking to the past to help navigate a complex modern world.
From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the Jeremy Kyle Show to toxic documentaries on 'feckless scroungers' - writer and broadcaster Owen Jones argues that this growing strain of malevolent British TV programming denigrates the working class. Increasingly, it seems that poor and everyday working people have become invisible onscreen as producers opt to show more extreme stereotypes instead.
A look at the boundaries within comedy.
Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond gives his view on the future of children's television.
Professor Brian Cox addresses the main challenges in bringing science to television.
Bettany Hughes argues that history on television is enjoying a new golden age.
Lyse Doucet asks if the social media revolution spells the end for broadcast news.
Owen Jones argues against what he sees as TV programming denigrating the working class.