CHILDREN'S television presenter Andy Day will be entertaining visitors with a live show at the National Media Museum as part of this year's Bradford Science Festival.

Throughout October Bradford Science Festival features activities for all ages across the city centre.Presenter Andy Day will be making a special appearance at the Museum on Sunday, October 12, presenting an interactive show featuring his CBeebies nature programmes Andy’s Wild Adventures and Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures.

For over-18s there an evening of entertainment tying in with the Festival’s ‘Let’s Get Digital’ theme from 6.30pm on Thursday, October 9, including the preview of Four Door Lemon’s un-released videogame 101 Ways to Die.

Other talks and activities include Nevermind the Xbox, a comedy panel show featuring experts from computing and videogames; The Art of Pushing Pixels revealing what a pixel is and why it matters with Kriss Blank from Bradford games developer Wetgenes; and in Why Robots?, with Emma Bearman of Playful Leeds encouraging robot making.

Hacking for Fun introduces the world of hardware hacking and hackspaces and Tinker with Doodlebots gives people a chance to design build and programme their own robots. All this and more will be taking place in the Museum’s galleries, including Life Online and the Games Lounge, with Bradford community radio station BCB providing the night’s soundtrack.

Donna Johnson, Head of Learning and Participation at the Museum said: “The Bradford Science Festival is a brilliant opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to find out how fun and exciting science can be. We hope the activities we’re putting on at the Museum will demonstrate technology at it’s most interesting and entertaining.”

In addition, a series of science fiction films, which also forms part of the BFI’s Days of Fear and Wonder programme, will be screened, including Village of the Damned, David Bowie's son Duncan Jones’s film Moon, cult classic Barbarella, Metropolis and Quatermass and the Pit.