Better than talk radio, the street radio BBC4 is doing on some of the most controversial issues of our times is phenomenal.

I was thinking the other day that if journalists write the first drafts of our his/herstories, social media is recording our social history in unprecedentedly rich detail (assuming we’re able to avoid a global holocaust scenario that returns us to pre-industrial times).

And a few months ago, in talking to Darren Frew of Nanotech BC, we discussed the need for nanotechnology to do better than both the nuclear and genetically modified foods sector in communicating the risks and benefits of the innovations on offer.

I’m glad to see Street Science is out there doing just that. So far I’ve listened to the nanotech and nuclear power segments. I was amazed to discover two-in-one shampoos contain nanotechnology – already knew about the sunscreens. And it was hard not to smile in sympathy with Dr. Ion when confronted by the sheer misinformation still held to be true by members of the great unwashed general public.

(For some odd reason I had to download RealAudio to listen to this; not sure why Windows MediaPlayer wasn’t up to the job.)

Update: I first read of this program on Richard Jones’ blog and shamelessly omitted to mention him till Andrew Maynard reminded me it wasn’t my own discovery. Mea maxima culpa.