The Website of Neil
Harris
Neil Harris is an
international award-winning science documentary film-maker. Starting as a
Researcher on BBC-TV's 'Horizon', 'Tomorrow's World' and 'Making of Mankind'
series from 1978, he has pursued a freelance career since 1981. Between 1983
and 1998 he made over twenty 1/2-hour programmes for the Foreign Office's
'Perspective' series, covering a wide range of developments in science from
archaeology to nuclear fusion. Combined with numerous corporate videos for
blue-chip companies and central government as an independent producer, he has
gained insights into how science works in the academic and commercial spheres
and its often fraught relationship with government in the UK. Concern over the
dearth of new, paradigm-shifting science and the lack of serious science
coverage in the UK at the start of the new millennium led him to wonder whether
we have a real problem. A problem that has slowed progress in
basic science and will lead eventually to the destruction of our culture.
Writings
