Professor Cox was awarded a CBE in October last year Physicist Professor Brian Cox has said the BBC made a mistake by agreeing to turn down the music volume for his scientific series Wonders of the Universe.
The BBC agreed to lower the sound after receiving 118 complaints about the background music on the first episode being too loud and/or intrusive.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Start the Week, Cox said he thought it was an error.
“We can sometimes be too responsive to the minority of people that complain.”
He added: “It should be a cinematic experience – it’s a piece of film on television, not a lecture.”
In the BBC Two series, Cox reveals how the most fundamental scientific principles and laws explain the story of the universe and humanity. Each show in this series has been watched by more than 3m people.
The four-part series tackles life’s big issues, such as what we are and where we come from, as well as how gravity sculpts the entire universe.
Cox began his career as a rock star, when his band Dare signed a deal with A&M records in 1986. Dare recorded two albums and toured with Jimmy Page, Gary Moore and Europe before breaking up in 1992.
Cox then joined D’Ream, whose song Things Can Only Get Better was famously used by Tony Blair as the Labour Party election song in 1997.
Cox studied at Manchester University while he was in the band, and in 2009, he became a professor of particle physics at the same university.
He has since gone on to become a radio and TV presenter. His credits include BBC Two’s Stargazing and Wonders of the Solar System.
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