Quentin Cooper
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Cooper in 2013
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| Born | 1961 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England |
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| Show | Material World | ||
| Station(s) | BBC Radio 4 | ||
| Time slot | Thursday 16:30–17:00 | ||
| Country | United Kingdom | ||
| Previous show(s) | Connect, Kaleidoscope | ||
| Spouse(s) | Suba Subramaniam | ||
| Website | BBC Profile | ||
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Quentin Cooper (born 1961, Grimsby) is a science journalist and facilitator, best known as the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Material World. He speaks at science festivals and lectures, and works regularly with science and educational organisations such as the Royal Society and the British Council.
Cooper attended Wintringham school in Grimsby. He then studied for a BSc in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He then went to University College Cardiff where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism Studies.
At the BBC, he started as a producer in News and Current Affairs, then moved to produce youth programmes at Radio Scotland (in Glasgow), and Radio 5 in Manchester where he created programmes such as Hit The North which first united Mark and Lard aka Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley and Bite the Wax, a BBC Scotland show presented by Armando Iannucci.
Moving to London he produced arts programmes before becoming one of the regular presenters of Kaleidoscope. This then led to him scripting and fronting a range of arts, entertainment, technology and science programmes across Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Live and World Service as well as for over 10 years being a regular film critic first for 5Live then for Radio 2's Parkinson's Sunday Supplement. He was the guest Michael Parkinson interviewed most often. While it has more than once been observed he has a "face for radio", he has been interviewed on television interviewee and 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".
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