Crystal Tipps and Alistair films for the Central Office of Information. The series has no dialogue but rather is accompanied by a full musical soundtrack composed by Paul Reade; however, when shown on "Captain Kangaroo" in the U.S. in the 1970s the series did have voice-over narration by Cosmo "Gus" Allegretti in his high-pitched "Mister Moose" voice. Crystal's Christmas Special was shown on 25 December 1974. Crystal Tipps and Alistair Crystal Tipps and Alistair is a British cartoon produced for the BBC. The title characters are a girl and her dog who are joined by their friends Birdie and Butterfly. There are 50 five-minute
The Wavewatcher's Companion The Wavewatcher's Companion The Wavewatcher's Companion is a 2010 science book by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The book was the 2011 winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. The book is a wide-ranging discussion on waves in all their forms and how waves are such an intimate part of our lives. The book's topics include: As Jennifer Ouellette of the Wall Street Journal describes, Pretor-Pinney 'employs a chatty, conversational tone, with clear technical explanations enlivened by real-world examples, whimsical asides, personal anecdotes and inventive analogies' to explain his subject. The book was well received on its publication. Victoria Segal