page_title: Quentin Cooper
section_title: Broadcasting
hierarchical_section_title: Quentin Cooper / Career / Broadcasting
caption_attribution_description: English: Self-taken photo of Quentin Cooper with two of the original Clangers brought in to one of his BBC radio programmes
context_page_description: Quentin Cooper is a science journalist and facilitator, who presented BBC Radio 4's Material World from 2000 to 2013. He speaks at science festivals and lectures, and works regularly with science and educational organisations such as the Royal Society and the British Council.
context_section_description: At BBC Radio Scotland, in Glasgow, Cooper worked as a producer in News and Current Affairs, and youth programmes such as Bite the Wax, presented by Armando Iannucci, then Hit The North which first united Mark and Lard aka Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley for Radio 5 in Manchester. 
  Moving to London he produced arts programmes, and presented Kaleidoscope, and a range of arts, entertainment, technology and science programmes across Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Live and World Service. He was a film critic for 5Live then for Radio 2's Parkinson's Sunday Supplement. Cooper presented the series Science Fix for BBC Four and New Scientist Reports for Discovery Channel.
  From 1999 to 2013 he presented Material World on Radio 4.   Described by the Radio Times as "the most accessible, funny and conversational science programme on radio" and by Bill Bryson as "quite the best thing on radio", in the 2011 BBC Trust review of impartiality and accuracy of the BBC's coverage of science it was singled out for "particular praise".
  Cooper is an occasional presenter of the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum, and interviewer on the Transplant Links Community podcast.
caption: Cooper with two of the original Clangers, brought in to one of his BBC radio programmes
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