{"id":8492,"date":"2020-05-01T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2020-05-01T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:13:46","slug":"pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pallab-ghosh-wells-soc-revival-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Pallab Ghosh &#8211; Wells Soc Revival: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8553\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/05\/Pallab-2014-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Who would have thought that this first appearance on TV at Imperial College would lead to a career on the BBC? Yes, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcpallab\">Pallab Ghosh<\/a> now <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Science Correspondent for BBC News<\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pallab_Ghosh\">Pallab<\/a> studied Physics at Imperial which was probably a good all-rounder for what came next.<\/p>\n<p>But before his BBC career he was the editor of the student newspaper Felix. I do have the videotape of his Felix Editor Hustings Speech from 3 March 1983 (we&#8217;ll see that soon). Prior to that though, he was the chairman of the Imperial College HG Wells Society. Back in 1981, he was speaking to STOIC&#8217;s Martin Cowen about the revival of the society and what was planned in the coming months, including a potential Loch Ness Monster expedition!<\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows Pallab during a visit to Imperial College in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pallab Ghosh  - HG Wells Soc: 1981\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Em5AEczDfs?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>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1981, the now Science Correspondent for BBC News, Pallab Ghosh, was Chairman of the Imperial College HG Wells Society&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18461,80,82],"tags":[5019,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-people","category-student-life","tag-felix","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}