{"id":10044,"date":"2022-07-01T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:09:13","slug":"prof-eric-laithwaite-local-heroes-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/prof-eric-laithwaite-local-heroes-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Eric Laithwaite &#8211; Local Heroes: 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/07\/cl_1966_riic_2777_resized_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10089\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2022\/07\/cl_1966_riic_2777_resized_0-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In 1999 the BBC had a TV series called Local Heroes. It was presented by Adam Hart-Davis and featured various people who had made significant contributions to science etc. One programme featured Prof Eric Laithwaite. Filming took place in Eric Laithwaite&#8217;s original lab in Electrical Engineering. They needed various extras, so not surprisingly they contacted me. I provided the portrait photo (taken by my colleague Neville Miles); as well as giving them access to some film clips, and also pointing them towards other BBC materials that I knew about. One clip that I mentioned to them was the Noel Edmonds &#8216;Multi-Coloured Swap Shop&#8217; clip. Having been involved with the 1974 RI Christmas Lectures I also made sure that they knew about those too. Not a bad piece, except they got his title incorrect. It should have been Professor of Heavy ELECTRICAL Engineering, they left electrical out!<\/p>\r\n<p>The opening sequence is before the college main entrance changed completely, so that&#8217;s a flashback for those who remember it the way it once was.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Local Heroes - Eric Laithwaite: 1999\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VikyRmGQvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw July 2022<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999 the BBC&#8217;s TV series Local Heroes featured Prof Eric Laithwaite and I had a very minor hand in the programme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,80,390],"tags":[84,18467],"class_list":["post-10044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-people","category-technology","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-tv-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}