9 Aug '11

“Last night’s instalment looked at the science behind our perception of colour, which sounds like it might be a bit dry but turned out to be a fairly bamboozling tour through some fundamental questions that are as philosophically arresting as they are scientifically.”
Archie Bland, The Independent

“We have words for things it seems, only when our brains have some way of seeming them, or maybe it is the other way round.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“The red-blue thing is just a part of this fascinating programme. As well as looking at how different colours affect us, it examines what affects the way we see colours, whether we all see colours the same way, whether we even see them differently from day to day.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“While the show lacks the edge that it had in its glory years, and even though I kept thinking how wonderful it would be to be watching it for the first time, it remains one of the funniest things on TV.”
Archie Bland, The Independent

“There was lots more – there had to be in a programme taking up two hours of a Monday evening – but hanging over it all was a certain lacklustre feeling.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“As the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his sidekick the TV camera combined to become the modern-day, middle-class superheroes whose force would kerpow the hell out of madly unsustainable fishing policies.”
Alex Hardy, The Times

“He’s a proper battler, not afraid to make a right old nuisance of himself. And people – Parliament, Brussels, even Tesco – listen. Such is the power of television and the celebrity chef.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian