Quentin hosts BBC Radio 4’s weekly The Material World, the UK's most listened to science programme as well writing and presenting as a range of other science output on radio, television and in print. He also facilitates and directs an increasing number of other science events in the UK and round the world – in the last year these include a science communication workshop in Japan, a climate change conference in Yemen, a biodiversity summit in Brazil, and a talk about the image of scientists in Moscow. He also works regularly with various universities and organisations such as the British Council, the Royal Society, BBC Training, the Institute of Physics, Astra Zeneca, The Natural History Museum, Cheltenham Science Festival, The World Diabetes Foundation and – in particular – the Cape Farewell climate change project.

Also a film critic and former radio music producer, The Times has called him “the world’s most enthusiastic man” and “an expert on everything from pop music to astrophysics”, while the Daily Mail claims his “wit and enthusiasm can enliven the dullest of topics”.    Neither newspaper is correct.