Elin Roberts: The Bacon Sandwich
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A simple interview about a bacon sandwich turns into a national, then international nightmare. Elin Roberts is Head of Public Engagement at the Centre for Life in Newcastle. She is a passionate science communicator producing activities and programs for visitors. She has worked with scientists, presenters and teachers helping them direct their messages. As a hands-on practitioner she still enjoys the sensation of dried PVA on her fingertips and the smell of freshly applied sticky back plastic.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:35.0 | We have a bunch of upcoming shows, including our fifth-year anniversary show in New York City, May 6th. |
| 0:37.3 | Head to Storycollader.org for more info. |
| 0:39.8 | This week's story is from Ellen Roberts. |
| 0:43.6 | It was recorded in June 2014 at the Book Club in London. |
| 1:02.1 | My struggle started about five years ago. And this is the sad and sorry tale of how I came to lose my faith in bacon. |
| 1:14.8 | The story starts five years ago, back in Newcastle upon time, because I do not come from the heady metropolis that is London, oh no, those woolly areas that people call the regions, |
| 1:21.7 | they're not as far away as you might think, but they're often a world apart. |
| 1:26.0 | We spurn your southern baguettes for northern stotties. |
| 1:32.0 | Hot dogs are dismissed in favour of Savaloi dips. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm Welsh. I've no idea what they are either. |
| 1:39.6 | But no one can deny the Jordie love of pie. |
| 1:45.3 | So when the Northeast has a food festival, |
| 1:49.3 | this isn't the gastronomic experience that you might expect in the hoity-to-to-ty capital city. |
| 1:55.4 | There was a competition. |
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