{"id":10053,"date":"2023-09-08T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:44:01","slug":"prof-eric-laithwaite-heretic-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-eric-laithwaite-heretic-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Eric Laithwaite – Heretic: 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The BBC Heretic series in 1994 featured Professor Eric Laithwaite. It focused of course on his now infamous Gyroscope theories and demonstrations, one of which I recorded in the TV Studio in 1983. By 1994 he had retired from Imperial College and had been given lab space at the University of Sussex, close to where he lived after retiring from Imperial College. Interestingly, the Royal Institution<\/a> let them recreate the controversial 1974 evening discourse, even though they apparently never published the paper and distanced themselves from the whole event.<\/p>\n

Lots of archival material from his days at both he University of Manchester and in the lab at Imperial College. There’s also a tiny clip from a programme series called “The Engineer’s World” which was recorded in his lab. I’ve never seen that before and is dated on the BBC Genome Web page as 31 October 1971.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that even now, there are lots of people with their own views on what he both came up with, and also suggested, could be achieved with Gyros! But if nothing else, he was fun to work with if you ever had the chance.<\/p>\n