{"id":8492,"date":"2020-05-01T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:13:46","slug":"pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Pallab Ghosh &#8211; Wells Soc Revival: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8553\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/05\/Pallab-2014-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Who would have thought that this first appearance on TV at Imperial College would lead to a career on the BBC? Yes, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcpallab\">Pallab Ghosh<\/a> now <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Science Correspondent for BBC News<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pallab_Ghosh\">Pallab<\/a> studied Physics at Imperial which was probably a good all-rounder for what came next.<\/p>\n<p>But before his BBC career he was the editor of the student newspaper Felix. I do have the videotape of his Felix Editor Hustings Speech from 3 March 1983 (we&#8217;ll see that soon). Prior to that though, he was the chairman of the Imperial College HG Wells Society. Back in 1981, he was speaking to STOIC&#8217;s Martin Cowen about the revival of the society and what was planned in the coming months, including a potential Loch Ness Monster expedition!<\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows Pallab during a visit to Imperial College in 2014.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Em5AEczDfs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1981, the now Science Correspondent for BBC News, Pallab Ghosh, was Chairman of the Imperial College HG Wells Society&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18461,80,82],"tags":[5019,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-people","category-student-life","tag-felix","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pallab Ghosh - Wells Soc Revival: 1981 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Back in 1981, Pallab Ghosh (now Science Correspondent for BBC News) was Chairman on the Imperial College HG Wells Society.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pallab Ghosh - Wells Soc Revival: 1981 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in 1981, Pallab Ghosh (now Science Correspondent for BBC News) was Chairman on the Imperial College HG Wells Society.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-01T09:59:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-01T14:13:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/05\/Pallab-2014-300x249.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Colin Grimshaw\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/#\/schema\/person\/4311976ffc5be7f49bbc628f4d3e591e\"},\"headline\":\"Pallab Ghosh &#8211; 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