He has subsequently presented or contributed to hundreds of radio and television broadcasts. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1982–3, and he has written and presented many other programmes about science, including a 13-part series, "The Mind Machine" on BBC television, a radio series about artificial intelligence, "Machines with Minds", and a documentary for Channel 4 television, "God and the Scientists". He writes for British and overseas newspapers, especially "The Guardian", "The Observer", the "Daily Telegraph" and "The Times". He has also written or edited several popular science books, including "Mechanics of the Mind", "The Mind Machine". "Gender and Society", "Mindwaves", "Images and Understanding" and "The Oxford Companion to the Body". Since 2004 he has been Honorary President of the Association of British Science Writers.