Review of A for Andromeda

I saw the first episode on BBC, and it was introduced by Prof. Fred Hoyle himself, the man responsible for saying something like "You mean it All started with a Big Bang?" because like nearly everybody else, scientist or religionist (or both) he presumed that Reality began infinitely long ago. I was delighted to learn that a Cambridge professor of considerable renown had retained his Yorkshire accent! This is a story about the world being invaded from far Outer Space by the contents of a radio signal. Hoyle wrote quite a few science fiction stories, and NEVER used faster-than-light travel. His first was "The Black Cloud", a more than planet-sized single organism of quite staggering intelligence, that is totally independent of carbon-based chemistry.