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Horizon producer, later Head of Science at the BBC
The importance of storytelling is a key theme that binds all those that have worked on Horizon over the past 50 years, but how those stories are told has changed over the decades. When John Lynch ed Horizon in the 1970s, simply revealing how something 'worked', without necessarily telling any ‘story’ as such, provided sufficient interest for audiences.
Establishing a relationship with the scientific community has always been important to the various Horizon teams over the years. Trust in what the BBC does generally has opened many doors to researchers, and areas of scientific controversy have become accessible, sometimes during the production of a Horizon programme.
John Lynch explained the highly diplomatic role of the Horizon producer; skills still much in evidence amongst programme makers today.
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