Adam’s Horizon programme terrific last night. He is so relaxed and easy with TV now that the viewer is at once drawn into his enthusiasam for a fascinating subject synthetic biology. Strong contrast with Brian Cox, on before Adam looking at stars on BBC2,and stressing the vastness of unknown time and dark matter and freezing unlivable dead planets ignorance and helplessness of man etc While Horizon showed the enormous power of man to change living things NOW.Mary 2 due for lunch after first day of this term’s course. Mr B has chopped up Xmas tree for good smelling kindling.
London Monday 18th January 1943
Saw Philip off at lunchtime at Waterloo. (ED people were not supposed to tell anyone where they were going but I expect it was either big Naval base at Portsmouth or back to Margate and Motor Torpedo Boat Base) Went out to supper with Dougald at Majorca and then to ‘Derriere la Facade’.Half an hour ‘s Alert during supper rather spoilt my appetite as frightened as usual, but D la F was better the second time of seeing it.
