4 Nov, '09

“Stephen Cooter’s incredible documentary was clear, artistically composed, humorous without being silly, and may just have told us how the Universe was created.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Black holes sound, on one level, fascinating… No matter how hard a programme-maker tried to get some vaguely charismatic-looking astrophysicists on board, and to deck out his or her programme with some cool Jimi Hendrix backing tracks, they’re going to end up showing a lot of one, very boring thing: a bloke, usually in a bad jacket, standing at a blackboard, doing long hard sums.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“Comprehension came and went, never squarely in focus but flapping at the corner of your eye. But it was thrilling to feel its occasional flutter, and to get some sense of the scale of the forces involved.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“I may have taken eight pages of notes on last night’s Horizon, but in the end they all boil down to one exclamatory syllable. Cor!”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“It didn’t take very long before you realised that five minutes of evidence was going to be stretched over 55  minutes of airtime in Norman Hull’s film – a procedure that required an awful lot of moody filler shots and unsubstantiated rumour.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“She looked like a 76-year-old granny; she sounded like a sociopath. Norman Hull retreated, as confused I suspect, as he left us.”
Andrew Billen

“As ever, the show’s momentum was arrested by the perennially flavourless celebrity recipe challenge.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“The second part of the investigation was stronger than last week’s simply because it dug deeper into why dark people want to become whiter and thinner lipped (even as white people want deeper tans and fuller lips).”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“A spooky tale right out of a Stephen King novel. It concerned a village in the north-west of Cameroon, where 2,000 people dies in a single night.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express