FameLab

... actually, to perform th- in this three minutes, it's, uh, it's something which came to Poland, uh, two ways, because three-minute thesis came from Australia as a three-minute, uh, thesis of your PhD.

But also there is a format which came from Great Britain, and this is, uh, FameLab, and this is three minutes for the scientific topic you are sharing with a wider audience.

And I was actually, um, uh, uh, I...

One of my first activities in the science, uh, communication, it was this FameLab performance, and it was actually something I really enjoy.

Because, uh, because it, uh, can, uh...

This is a great training to, uh, catch the merit and see how to r- wrap it in the story very precisely, s- still to get the merit.

Jim's great.

I met Jim a couple of times at the Chatham Science Festival when I did the FameLab thing.

Do you remember I did the FameLab thing? Yes.

Aidan McKelvey, producer, joins us.

Yeah, do you remember that? What happened to FameLab? Ireland ceased to be funded anymore by the British Council.

The British Council had decided they wanted to go in a different direction.

They

Priorities changed and they were like, we're not going to fund this anymore.