BBC Science Focus Magazine

IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS

hen I think back to it, it was a very strange time. I was lying on a ward bed in a disused hospital on the outskirts of Glasgow. My face was dripping with fake blood and slime. The lights were hot. We’d been there for seven hours. But after many random sleep-deprived moments of weirdness,. All of this for the service of a few night owls who’d tuned into Channel 4’s late-night experimental strand, 4Later.

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