Once again, the BA Festival of Science generated a large amount of press coverage. Stories from the 2006 BA Festival of Science reached millions of people; appearing everywhere from Teletext to the Today Programme and from the Times to the 10 O'Clock News. The artificial intelligence ‘chatbot’, George, was even interviewed on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Double page spreads appeared in the Eastern Daily Press, our media partner, every day of the Festival.

The top ten most-covered stories from the 2006 Festival were:

1. The BA Presidential Address
2. Beyond the brain: making science personal
3. Doctor, doctor: I'm allergic to my food
4. Beautiful brains
5. Communicating without words
6. The emotions
7. Virtual humans: real communication
8. The Antarctic canary – the human impact of climate change
9. Kith and kin: from chimpanzee politics to global networks
10. People, science and society: 'making space for water'

Our former President, Professor Robert Winston, was a guest speaker at the Festival. Click here to access his BBC Look East interview.

The full Festival media evaluation can be downloaded here (PDF 533KB).

Media evaluation 2005
Media evaluation 2004