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There’s something grounded in a very particular kind of 1980s/90s BBC Television content in the values Tom Scott’s videos embody. It’s sort of like he managed t
by jameshart 3y ago
There’s something grounded in a very particular kind of 1980s/90s BBC Television content in the values Tom Scott’s videos embody. It’s sort of like he managed to give himself a job roleplaying as a Blue Peter/Tomorrow’s World presenter. He basically carried forward the kind of Reithian ‘mission to inform’ BBC values that largely disappeared in the John Birt era and somehow brought them onto YouTube.
- ben_w 3y agoIIRC in one of his videos, he explicitly said he was modelling himself on the Blue Peter style he grew up with. If I had to guess, somewhere in this video, but I'm not watching 17 minutes again even at double speed just to make a comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUF4afxMpQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUF4afxMpQk
- mhh__ 3y agoHe tried and AFAICT failed to do TV in the past — this is probably not a bad thing given how the tides have changed. I have always found his patterns of speech interesting. Quite measured but untrained. I've never met him but I know a few people who have and I'm told that he's exactly the same in person (at least at a formal dinner!) which probably tracks.
- leros 3y agoWhich is interesting because he graduated with a degree in linguistics, so it's something he understands quite well.