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Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingI Went From Stonehenge to the SKA: 5,000 Years of Cosmic Curiosity In 45 minutesPlease join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt for your chance to win a meteorite 💥 What connects a 5,000-year-old stone circle to the most ambitious radio telescope ever built? In this episode, we travel from Stonehenge to Jodrell Bank and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to trace humanity’s obsession with the sky — from lifting megaliths to catching whispers of the Big Bang.
We start at Stonehenge, a Neolithic “star clock” aligned with the solstices, then fast-forward through millennia to stand beneath the 76 m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, and finally into the control rooms of the SKA: hu...
2025-12-0248 min
Manchester News Today | The Daily News Now!Jodrell Bank's Cold War SecretJodrell Bank Observatory, a quiet radio telescope in Cheshire, secretly served as a vital intelligence hub during the Cold War. Sir Bernard Lovell and his team tracked Soviet missiles, providing crucial data to British ministers and armed forces. GCHQ operatives, known as secret squirrels, monitored early Soviet space probes and satellites. The telescopes ability to track Sputnik saved it from budget cuts and led to its use in monitoring Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile tests. Jodrell Bank even uncovered a failed Soviet moon landing attempt, making it a critical part of the UKs defense during a tense period of global history.
2025-11-2302 min
The JodcastApril 2025Bursting with Mysteries, FRBs. Welcome to our first themed episode of 2025. This month’s episode is everything to do with Fast Radio Bursts, or FRBs - their exciting discovery, mysterious origins and paving the way to using them as probes in space. This episode features double FRB interviews, with Dr Cherry Ng from CNRS Orleans giving an overview about these astrophysical mysteries, and Dr Ines Pastor Marazuela talking about her work here at Jodrell Bank to observe and understand the populations of FRBs we’ve found. But first, the news.
2025-04-0152 min
Game ChangersJodrell Bank: Inspiring The Next GenerationWhat’s the best way to inspire the next generation of scientists?That was the question facing our Game Changer Teresa Anderson MBE. She’s a physicist and the director of the Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank. For the past 18 years, she has been driving the Observatory’s redevelopment, hoping to attract a new, diverse generation of people to gaze at the stars, and discover the wonders of space.The stunning new exhibition spaces are the result, built with a little help from The National Lottery.Game Changers host, Aimee Fuller...
2024-10-3032 min
That's A Free BeeFact Checking Snowmen! Episode 44: Fact Checking Snowmen! ❄️🕵️Welcome to "That's a Free Bee!" This episode, Diggy dives into a frosty fact-checking session with Olaf from Frozen, revisits amusing personal stories, and explores new insights on quirky topics. 📚🎙️Feature Highlights:Ask a Free Bee: Diggy discusses his favorite white elephant gifts, highlighting a personalized mug and a humorously practical book, "How to Fart at Work." 🐘🎁Health Update: Positive news on Diggy's health improvements with medication adjustments, leading to better days at work and increased energy. 💊👍Cultural Visits: Insights from a visit to the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, with a focus on th...
2024-05-0930 minThat's A Free BeeFact Checking Snowmen! Episode 44: Fact Checking Snowmen! ❄️🕵️Welcome to "That's a Free Bee!" This episode, Diggy dives into a frosty fact-checking session with Olaf from Frozen, revisits amusing personal stories, and explores new insights on quirky topics. 📚🎙️Feature Highlights:Ask a Free Bee: Diggy discusses his favorite white elephant gifts, highlighting a personalized mug and a humorously practical book, "How to Fart at Work." 🐘🎁Health Update: Positive news on Diggy's health improvements with medication adjustments, leading to better days at work and increased energy. 💊👍Cultural Visits: Insights from a visit to the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, with a focus on th...
2024-05-0930 min
Cold War Conversations PodcastBritain's first Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning Station at Jodrell BankThe Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire in the UK played a significant secret role during the Cold War. It was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War.We hear some intriguing details of the site’s Cold War roles including being Britain’s first nuclear attack early warning station and its signals intelligence collaboration with GCHQ, the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters.Even more surprisingly it’s also revealed how Soviet Scientists also worked at the site and that...
2024-01-131h 35The JodcastJanuary 2024Bluedot 2023 Special. In this episode, Fiona Porter travels to Bluedot and interviews Dr. Rebecca Bowler, Sheena Cruickshank, and Jen Gupta. Additionally, Fiona Porter conducted a separate, extended interview with Dr. Tim O'Brien about organizing Bluedot and about the history of Jodrell Bank.
2024-01-0145 min
BBC Inside ScienceLife beyond EarthUnder the mighty radio Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, Victoria Gill brings together some of the UK’s leading experts who were visiting the recent ‘bluedot’ science and music festival. They discussed the ongoing hunt for extraterrestrial life. We hear from Karen Olsson-Francis, a microbiologist who focuses on the tiny living things that have managed to occupy Earth's most hostile environments. Her research is helping shape space missions that are looking for evidence of life elsewhere in our solar system. Also on the panel is Libby Jackson, head of space exploration at the UK Space Agency...
2023-11-0238 min
Through the TelescopeJodrell BankThis episode, Rose and Elliott put the spotlight on Jodrell Bank, home to the iconic Lovell radio telescope and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Find us at throughthetelescope.co.ukMusic:"Nowhere Land" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-02-1952 min
Show Me Something Wrong13. The Bucks Party (1978) with Steve JodrellDave shows Guy THE BUCKS PARTY from 1978. THE BUCKS PARTY is a criminally underseen Australian film that follows the increasingly disturbing antics of a beer-soaked bachelor party. It is a tense Wake-In-Fright-like trip to macho hell. We are lucky enough to have a special guest this episode, as Steve Jodrell, director of THE BUCKS PARTY (and many more great films and TV shows), comes on board to discuss his work!
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2023-01-101h 22Show Me Something Wrong13. The Bucks Party (1978) with Steve JodrellDave shows Guy THE BUCKS PARTY from 1978. THE BUCKS PARTY is a criminally underseen Australian film that follows the increasingly disturbing antics of a beer-soaked bachelor party. It is a tense Wake-In-Fright-like trip to macho hell. We are lucky enough to have a special guest this episode, as Steve Jodrell, director of THE BUCKS PARTY (and many more great films and TV shows), comes on board to discuss his work!
Follow Show Me Something Wrong on Instagram and Twitter.
Show Me Something Wrong theme song by JUNK!
2023-01-101h 22
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 162: Dr Manisha Caleb ~ Unravelling FRB MysteriesMeet an amazing researcher and astrophysicist Dr Manisha Caleb …
Manisha has used the world’s most powerful instruments to unlock the secrets of some of the most powerful and puzzling objects in our known universe.
For her PhD she took a very deep dive and most productive research program into the phenomena of Fast Radio Bursts using the MOST and Parkes radio telescopes, and along the way, helped refurbish and reconfigure the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope situated not far from Canberra in Australia.
Since then, her post-doc took her to Manchester and the famous Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank and furt...
2022-12-1428 min
The bluedot Podcastbluedot festival 2022 - A Certain Ratio Listening Party with Chris HawkinsWelcome to the bluedot podcast, with Chris Hawkins.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.We took the bluedot podcast onstage at bluedot 2022, and this In Conversation recorded live features Chris Hawkins in conversation with A Ce...
2022-09-1650 minThe bluedot Podcastbluedot festival 2022 - Kelly Lee Owens Listening Party with Tim BurgessWelcome to the bluedot podcast.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.This episode is a full recording of a special Tim's Listening Party, recorded on the Friday of bluedot 2022, with Kelly Lee Owens in conversation wi...
2022-09-021h 04The bluedot PodcastIn Conversation with Professor Teresa Anderson Live at Jodrell BankTeresa Anderson is an award-winning physicist and director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, which she founded in 2010. Alongside Tim O’Brien, Teresa spearheaded the campaign to make Jodrell Bank a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an accolade it received in 2019. Teresa co-founded Live From Jodrell Bank in 2012 and the series of shows featured Elbow, Sigur Ros, The Halle and more, expanding into the weekend of science and music you now know as bluedot, in 2016…Welcome to the bluedot podcast… with Professor Teresa Anderson! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
2022-07-0831 min
Hassell TalksCampus design should be ’a strange beast’ of art, science and design. with Professors Teresa Anderson and Tim O’Brien, and Julian GitshamWhat does bouncing Kraftwerk’s music off the surface of the moon have to do with the future of the university campus?
Universities are paying close attention to the way interstellar music-science-arts-technology-culture experience makers bluedotfestival engage audiences in cross-disciplinary learning. But how far do they need to go on campus?
Turns out - they need to create a 'wow' factor deeply rooted in curiosity and learning.
Who better to debate the future of the university campus than Hassell's co-lead of Education and Science, Julian Gitsham, together with the creators of bluedot, Professor Teresa Anders...
2022-04-2727 min
North v South105. Dwarf furnitureOur two brave soldiers have clawed their way out of their fetid sickbeds to bring you the very latest in random stuff they've found on the internet. And design news. They peer into Jodrell Bank's new identity, wonder at Twitter's continued interference, peruse some new fonts and mull over designer labels?Jodrell Bank's new identity by JohnsonBanksLetters of Note – Steve AlbiniTwitter NFT bombedTwitter bid from Elon MuskAlan Moore on BBC MaestroOpenAIProxima Sera releasedNicholas fontEl...
2022-04-1459 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsTHE BLUS BROTHERS: SUNBURNT SCREENS - SHAME + THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUNDThe Blus Brothers (formerly A Serious Disc Agreement) is a physical media review show on an omission from VOD. Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) expand their IMPRINT COMPANION podcast to include the best physical media releases worldwide. For this episode, we're discussing Umbrella Entertainment's Sunburnt Screens label - SHAME and THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND.SHAME (1988) (SUNBURNT SCREENS #13) BLU-RAYThe latest release and volume #13 for our Sunburnt Screens collection is Shame. This release includes all-new interview with Steve Jodrell (Director), Michael Brindley (Co-writer), Beverley Blankenship (Co-writer), Simone Buchanan (Lizzie...
2022-01-2027 min
CVLTUREEamonn Kerins - Interstellar Space Travel, New Habitable Planets & Climate Change - CVLTURE Episode #027Eamonn Kerins is an astrophysicist based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. He is one of the UK's leading experts in the discovery of exoplanets - planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. His work involves using telescopes both on the ground and in space, such as NASA's Kepler space telescope. He leads a global team that is using a worldwide network of telescopes to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, and he is also Deputy Lead of the Exoplanet Science Working Group for the upcoming European Space Agency Euclid mission. His interests...
2021-09-151h 06
月球空间站5.阿雷西博望远镜大家好！欢迎来到我的播客月球空间站。今天是第5期，讲讲阿雷西博望远镜。阿雷西博望远镜位于波多黎各，佛罗里达州迈阿密东南1600公里，是加勒比海上的一个小岛，岛上有卡斯特地貌，就是那种四周高，中间低的盆地，正好适合建大型望远镜。波多黎各是美国的一个自治邦，根据我粗浅的理解，类似于香港澳门在中国的地位。插句题外话，刚刚结束的奥运会，美国拿了39块金牌，位列第一，但是这个金牌数是根据每个国家和地区的奥委会来统计的。一个主权国家是可以有好几个奥委会的。如果按照国家来，波多黎各拿了1块，加上美国本土，一共40块，而中国大陆拿了38块，香港1块，台湾2块，一共41块，所以中国应该排第一的。说回这个望远镜，正式名称叫阿雷西博天文台，它是由美国自然科学基金委管理，又叫国家天文和电离层研究中心，简称NAIC，之前呢，干脆叫阿雷西博电离层观测。至于为什么叫这个名字，稍后我会讲。这个望远镜口径有305米，利用了卡斯特地貌的天然地形，反射面是一个球面，也就是说在望远镜的上空能找到一个位置是球心，望远镜上任何一个点到这个球心的距离都相等。在反射面的上空168米处，有一个中央平台，由钢缆吊起，里面安装了接收机以及雷达发射装置。望远镜1963年完工，直到2016年中国的FAST启用之前，它都是世界上最大的望远镜。阿雷西博望远镜在射电天文方面做出了很多重要发现，但是呢，最初建设它的目的并不是研究天文，而是研究电离层，这也是它叫做阿雷西博电离层天文台的原因。为什么要研究电离层呢？因为电离层的高度是80到1000公里，导弹就在这个高度飞行，所以关于电离层的一切研究军方都很感兴趣。另一方面，1957年苏联发射了人类第一颗人造卫星Sputnik 1号。这个事件震惊了美国人，直接促成了1958年国防高等研究计划属DARPA以及美国国家航天局NASA的诞生。NASA这个机构就不说了，经常在各种电影中出现。DARPA其实也很有名，是神盾特工局的现实版。这些机构当年确实资助了很多看起来就很科幻的研究项目。这些呢，就是Gordon研究电离层以及建设阿雷西博的背景。这个望远镜的特点呢，除了口径大，还有就是具备主动发射电磁波的能力，说白了，这个望远镜其实是一个雷达。望远镜最初由William Gordon在1958年提出，目的是通过散射效应研究地球高空电离层的密度和温度。通常来说频率10MHz以下，波长超过30米的长波电磁波会被电离层完全反射，这也是长波通讯的原理，但是长波通讯的距离太短。Gordon注意到地球以上数千公里的高空电离层对电磁波有散射效应，也许可以用来做远距离通讯。研究来，研究去，发现这种散射太弱了，没法进行实际应用。但是他突然灵机一动，这种散射没法用于通讯，但是可以用于研究电离层本身啊！于是Gordon在1958年下半年领导一个小组进行了相关的计算，结果表明300米口径的天线可以满足要求。这个工作整理了一份报告，提交给了军方，这也是阿雷西博望远镜最初的设计文档。就在报告提交之前的一个月，Kenneth Bowles做了一个实验，证实Gordon小组的计算基本正确，但是达到预期目标并不需要这么大的天线。然而Bowles的结果被Gordon小组以及决策机构有意无意的忽略了，之后所有的规划都是按照300米口径进行的。用现在的话讲，造这么大的望远镜完全是一次乌龙，但这是一个幸运的乌龙，300米口径使得望远镜获得了超高的灵敏度。如果按照Bowles正确的参数进行设计，如果只是完成电离层研究的既定目标，天线可以造的小得多，但是就永远不会有之后六十年阿雷西博望远镜一系列伟大的成就了。Bowles的研究差点把阿雷西博搅黄，这种事情其实之前还发生过一次。英国的Jodrell Bank天文台二战刚结束就建设了76米的全可动反射面天线，现在已经是世界文化遗产了。它的创立者Lovell在1941年提出一个天线方案来研究宇宙射线。同一时间一位科学家进行了计算，指出如果要做宇宙射线研究的话，天线的口径需要比之预计的大得多。幸运的是这项研究因为二战的原因被忽视了。Lovell回忆说，如果1941年天线筹备阶段就注意到这项研究的话，会认为建设76米的天线是天方夜谈，根本不会往下进行。幸亏这项研究被忽视了，于是Jodrell Bank天文台基于最初的小口径天线方案开工建设。二战之后科学家意识到这项计算是对的，既然项目已经开工，于是就继续进行，天线口径也调整为大得多的76米。这件事告诉我们，错误的计划并不一定是坏事。这件事让我想到了人生，岁数越大越觉得，一切都是命，每个人都有注定的命数，对于人生的规划都是徒劳的。望远镜最初的设计是一个抛物面，中央平台架设在主反射面以上150米的地方，接受装置可以前后移动7米。望远镜可以追踪以天顶为中心，周围2度左右的区域。由于地球的自转，望远镜的观测区域一直在变化。2度的观测范围刚好可以追踪雷达发射的电磁波到太阳距离再反射回来，这样可以研究金星，水星等内地行星，甚至太阳本身。设计方案提出来之后，不断有人建议增加望远镜的观测范围，因为那样的话科学产出会大得多。最终的方案是反射面采用球面设计，接收机的移动范围扩大，可观测天区扩展到天顶南北各20度。这样针对一个源的持续跟踪时间延长到了2.6个小时，这段时间内雷达发射的电磁波可以到达土星再返回地球被望远镜接收，这也是阿雷西博作为雷达的最长观测距离。阿雷西博最初确实被用作超级雷达。阿雷西博之前天文学家普遍认为水星已经潮汐锁定，即自转周期和公转周期相同，都是88天。潮汐锁定在行星系统中很常见，比如月球就经历了潮汐锁定，它的自转周期和围绕地球的公转周期一样，都是28天左右，所以月亮始终有一面对着地球，另外一面地球上的人永远都看不到。1965年阿雷西博对水星开展了雷达观测，发现它的自转周期是59天，并没有潮汐锁定。金星由于大气非常稠密，很难看到其真实地表。1967年阿雷西博的雷达观测发现金星的自转周期是245天，并且跟绕太阳的公转方向相反。所以在金星上太阳是从西边升起的。对金星和水星的观测精确测定了地球到太阳的距离，也就是一个天文单位的长度，这是用视差法测定恒星距离的基础，也是接下来测量近邻星系，遥远星系，乃至整个宇宙大小的基础。1974年，作为一台功率强大的发报机，阿雷西博向球状星团M13给假想中的地外文明发出了第一条信息。这条信息非常有名，被称作阿雷西博消息。这条消息由地外文明研究的先驱德雷克以及著名科学家科普作家卡尔萨根设计。有一系列01组成。如果外星人足够智慧的话，应该有能力破译这条信息。发送消息的时候，
2021-09-1021 min
Benjamin's Britain14: Jodrell Bank ObservatoryMatthew Carr, radiographer and resident science expert, joins Ben and Nicky to talk about Jodrell Bank - Not a bank, but home to the giant Lovell Telescope in Cheshire. Since the 1950's it has been one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world and had a part to play in the Cold War. Matt's alternative landmark isn't far from where the boys went to school and would sneak off for views over Cardiff.You can now buy us a coffee if you enjoy our episodes - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/benjaminsbritain...
2021-06-2837 minBenjamin's Britain14: Jodrell Bank ObservatoryMatthew Carr, radiographer and resident science expert, joins Ben and Nicky to talk about Jodrell Bank - Not a bank, but home to the giant Lovell Telescope in Cheshire. Since the 1950's it has been one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world and had a part to play in the Cold War. Matt's alternative landmark isn't far from where the boys went to school and would sneak off for views over Cardiff.
2021-06-2837 min
beneath the stream30. Ed Parnell ~ Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted CountryThe power of place, our fascination with what is not human . . . these have been cornerstones of Beneath the Stream since we began. But so too is the power of the human mind, our perceptions, our telling of stories and perhaps, most of all, the telling of stories to ourselves through culture and memory and the tricks and truths we encounter.
The work of author Ed Parnell is a powerful illustration of all of the above. His acclaimed book Ghostland has been described as “Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is hau...
2021-03-0758 min
The Buzz: A science and engineering podcastThe Buzz Episode 8 - Do Aliens Exist?The Buzz is back! And in our second season we'll be attempting - with the help of our academic experts - to answer some of the biggest questions in science and engineering. In this episode we speak to Dr Eamonn Kerins, an astrophysicist at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, who tackles one of the most intriguing questions not only in the world, but the whole Universe: Do aliens exist? It's something we've all pondered while looking up at the night sky - and Dr Kerins, a leading expert on the use...
2021-01-2851 min
2020-12-1905 minAstronomy NewsThe news - November 2020This month in the news: water on the moon and getting in touch with Voyager.
2020-12-0204 min
The Supermassive Podcast11: Radio Skies & Strange SignalsIt’s about time we gave optical telescopes a break! This month, Izzie Clarke and Dr Becky Smethurst explore radio astronomy with Professor Tim O'Brien from the UK's Jodrell Bank Telescope and Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, former project scientist for the Australian Square Kilometre Array.Plus, Robert Massey shares his top tips for stargazing at home and choosing the right telescope for you. Send you pictures and questions to podcast@ras.ac.uk or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc.Space Book Club Recommendations: When Galaxies Collide - Lisa Harvey-Smith Space: 10 Things You Should Know - Becky Smethurst Moon: Art, Science, Cultu...
2020-11-2040 min
Event Industry News PodcastBeyond the blue sky thinkingFounding director of independent promoter/festival organiser From the Fields, think Kendal Calling, bluedot, Inner City Electronic, Off the Record and Bournemouth’s Arts by the Sea, Ben Robinson is never short of ideas.
Touching on Kendal Calling and the company mantra, in this episode Ben focuses on music, science and culture fest buedot, typically at Jodrell Bank University, and transforming the event for a virtual audience in 2020, which, with a lot of the content educational, wasn’t a straight swap.
Hear how turning the bluedot dates into A Weekend in Outer Space gave the team behin...
2020-09-2443 min
邱個 Podcast#4 回聲樂團的邱個，原來我們十幾年前早錄過Podcast了【邱個人物誌】本集邀訪回聲樂團，我們團員有主唱柏蒼，鼓手春佑，吉他手尹均，還有貝斯手邱個。 聊聊樂團的近況，還有我們年輕時候瘦身減肥的體驗與分享。 才想起來原來十幾年間我們就已經錄過Podcast，根本祖師爺等級的。 我也會將考古畫面分享到邱個 Chill Chill der臉書粉絲專頁，看看嫩嫩的邱個。 鼓手春佑推薦的台南牛肉湯：鬍鬚忠牛肉湯，康樂街牛肉湯，加一個溫體羊的「無名羊肉湯」 吉他手尹均的吉他音樂教室：【樂吉他】台北南京三民捷運站 主唱柏蒼的【Our Song】App：https://apps.apple.com/tw/app/oursong/id1447095056 邱個推薦的荒島專輯：Elbow樂團 Live at Jodrell Bank 回聲樂團：https://www.echoband.com #回聲樂團 Powered by Firstory Hosting
2020-07-311h 10
Das UniversumDU001 - Das dunkle Geheimnis der ZwerggalaxienSterne, Sterne und schwarze Löcher
Wir haben zu Beginn leider noch ein wenig Tonprobleme gehabt. Wird aber im Lauf der Sendung besser!
**DU001 - Das dunkle Geheimnis der Zwerggalaxien **
Einleitung:
Ruth erzählt von ihrer Arbeit im Science Center Jodrell Bank. Und von ihrem [mobilen Planetarium].
Florian erzählt, dass er [ein Blog schreibt]. Und diverse Bücher geschrieben hat.
Astro-Geschichte: Die schwarzen Löcher der Zwerggalaxien
Ruth erzählt von Gravitationswellen die durch verschmelzende schwarze Löcher ausgelöst werden und stellt eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit vor die...
2020-07-0755 min
The Buzz: A science and engineering podcastThe Buzz Episode 5 - Women in EngineeringTuesday, 23 June is International Women in Engineering Day – an event that celebrates the female engineers making waves and solving challenges across the globe. But why do we need a special day to celebrate this? According to the WISE Campaign, there are now over 50,000 women in engineering roles in the UK – nearly double the figure a decade ago. However, to put this into perspective, this accounts for only 10% of the UK’s entire engineering workforce. There is still work to be done. In this episode of The Buzz, we chat to a couple of the Faculty of Sci...
2020-06-2337 min
The Infinite Monkey CageUFO specialUFO SPECIALBrian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the 1st kind with comedian Lucy Beaumont, astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Director of Jodrell Bank Professor Tim O’Brien, and science presenter Dallas Campbell to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth? They explore why Lucy's home city of Hull appears to have had more than its fair share of alien visitations, as well as learning about the genuine scientific effort to look for intelligent life elsewhere in our universe.
This episode is also available to watch, so you can see our truly out of th...
2020-02-1242 min
Sequences MagazineSequences Podcast No 164As we start a new decade we wish all our listeners, happy New Year. Ten new acts grace this first edition of 2020. On the Russian Zoharum label, one half of Konstruktivists, Cathedra, a 2 CD set focusing on ritual, industrial & classical soundtrack pieces, for TXT, Midnat, Spuntic & Beta Consciousness, taken from Nagual Series, a 5 CD box set with 15 artists contributing almost 6hrs of music. Winter-Light label gives us Atomine’s ‘The Antikythera Mechanism’, delving deep into the intricacies and finely tuned mechanics of this mysterious all-encompassing machine. Ylang, Ylang, a.k.a. Catherine Debard’s ‘Interplays’, some of her most mature orchestratio...
2020-01-052h 55
The LloydbraryThe Lloydbrary - Visit 167Yesterday's dreams of tomorrow as we travel through Hauntology, the wyrd, radiophonics, and more
Paul Giovani - Sunset
The Hardy Tree - Theme to Stagdale
Justin Hopper & Sharon Kraus with the Belbury Poly - Slow air
Paddy Kingsland - Everybody's gone
Handspan - In from the fields
David Cain and Ronald Duncan - The year
Jonathan Sharp - Carlisle to Euston train, 1974
Brian Hodgson, Delia Derbyshire & Don Harper - The pattern emerges
The Conet Project - The Lincolnshire poacher
Adrian Utley and Will Gregory - Lost sequence
Grey Frequency - Rendelsham forest (1980)
Dalham - Beacon
Concretism - Microwave relay
...
2020-01-0400 min
Scientifically...The Sound of SpaceThe previously silent world of outer space is changing. In this audio tour around the Universe, Dr Lucie Green explores the sounds of space.Some sounds have been recorded by microphones on-board interplanetary spacecraft. Others have been detected by telescopes and sped up until their frequency is tuned to our ears. The rest are sonified X-rays, space plasma or radio waves that reveal tantalising secrets about the universe that our eyes cannot see.Everyone can recall the sound of the singing comet - a symphony created using measurements from the Rosetta mission. But many other...
2019-11-1328 min
PyDataMCREpisode 7 - Open Science and Imposters syndrome Ft. Rachael AinsworthWelcome to PyDataMCR episode 7, today we are talking to Rachael Ainsworth who is a Research Associate in Radio Astronomy and Open Science Champion at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, which is part of the University of Manchester, UK. Rachael talks about Open Science, Imposters Syndrome and construction of the Square Kilometre Array. Show Notes
Square kilometre array - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
Astropy - https://www.astropy.org/
Docker - https://www.docker.com/
Singularity - https://singularity.lbl.gov/
The Carpentries...
2019-09-2445 min
Tech for Good LiveRock & Roll Science: Bluedot 2019 SpecialIn this weeks episode, Producer Paul chats to Dsposal's Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore about what they got up to at last months Bluedot festival, a music, science and culture event held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks.
They discuss their attempts to demystify data in a fun and informative way with Open Data Manchester and of course, their special interest in the on-site bins.
We also had Harry Bailey out in the field, inverviewing Matthew Cobb. Matthew studies the sense of smell in maggots, as part...
2019-08-1757 min
Instant GeniusWhat happened at Bluedot festival 2019? – Libby Jackson, Tom Shakespeare and Danielle GeorgeIn mid-July this year, science and music lovers alike donned their Wellington boots and rain ponchos and made the journey to Jodrell Bank Observatory for the fourth annual Bluedot festival.The star-studded line-up included Helen Sharman; the first British astronaut, Jim Al-Khalili; science writer and author, an incredible 3-D concert experience from Kraftwerk and the post-punk sounds of New Order.We sent BBC Science Focus’ new editorial assistant Amy Barrett to the festival, where she chatted to a few of the speakers at the event. Not bad for your first week in a new job, eh?
2019-07-3136 min
Physics World Stories Podcast50th anniversary of Apollo 11 – returning to the Moon and going beyond
Throughout July the world has been celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11, when Neil Armstrong took those historic first steps on the Moon. In this episode of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester looks to the future, at the prospects of returning humans to the Moon before setting our sights on Mars.
Glester reports from the Blue Dot festival at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK. There, he enjoyed a lively mix of contemporary music, scientific talks, and plenty of other creative performances. In the podcast, you will also hear from:
Monica Grady, professor of planetary an...
2019-07-2429 min
Star DiaryBluedot Festival 2019 specialThe team return to Jodrell Bank in Cheshire for a weekend of science and music at Bluedot 2019. We speak to Prof Tim O’Brien about the important astronomy undertaken by the Lovell Telescope and the legacy of Apollo 11. Filmmaker Chloë Penman discusses the incredible history of Jodrell Bank Observatory and ‘Dr Space Junk’ Alice Gorman tells us about the human artefacts left behind by our exploration of the Solar System.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2019-07-2233 min
Saturday ReviewNever Look Away, The End of History at London's Royal Court, 8 Days to the Moon, Fleischman Is in Trouble, Felix VallottonFlorian Henckel von Donnersmarck's first film The Lives Of Others won the best Foreign Language Oscar, his follow-up The Tourist was a critical disaster. How will his latest - Never Look Away - fare critically and at the box office?
Jack Thorne's latest play The End Of History has just opened at London's Royal Court Theatre. It's the story - over three decades - of a left-leaning family who love each other and love to bicker.
8 Days To The Moon on BBC TV follows the progress of the three astronauts who went to the Moon half a century ago...
2019-07-0652 min
AstrotalkUKEpisode 86 – Moon: Art, Science, CultureMoon: Art, Science, Culture
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing was a momentous event and expected to be marked by numerous publications. Most books cover the technologies, events, personal recollections and politics of the first human voyage to another world. One book jointly authored by an art historian and an astronomer has a fresh perspective.
The guests in this episode are the authors of the book Moon: Art, Science, Culture - Dr Alexandra Loske Associate Tutor in Art History, University of Sussex and Dr Robert Massey Deputy Executive Director Royal Astronomical Society.
The book is attracting an interesting eclectic...
2019-06-2842 min
CrowdScienceWhat do clouds feel like?This week we turn our gaze skywards to tackle three questions about what’s going on above us. Three year old Zac from the UK wants to know what clouds feel like – if they’re supposedly like steam, then how are they cold?
Presenter Graihagh Jackson meets a meteorologist who can not only tell us but show us the answer, as we attempt to make a tiny cloud at ground level in the studio. Listener Agnese is looking beyond the cloud base and up to our nearest neighbour. She’d like to know why it is that we can see the...
2019-03-0132 min
DARK: Chats About SpaceEp3. ARE WE ALONE? Professor Michael GarrettThis is ‘brought to you’ by my book DARK: The A to Z Of Astronomy & The Cosmos. It’s a science and art book where each chapter deals with a different space-related subject and each of those chapters is accompanied by an original piece of art.
Help it get published and pre-order your copy here: www.unbound.com/books/dark
Welcome back! Episode 3 is a fantastic chat with Professor Michael Garrett who is the Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester, the Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA) and the vice-chair of the IAAs S...
2018-09-3054 min
Linnean PodcastsLinnean Podcast #6: Magic, Myths, Medicine and the Lost RemediesMyths, magic and medicine each offer a very different way in which we can make sense of the world, but are they actually really all that far apart? In this podcast we explore where these schools of thought overlap. This podcast features Valerie Thomas, Medical Herbalist; Julian Harrison, specialist on medieval manuscripts and Lead Curator of the exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic; and Professor Monique Simmonds OBE who is a botanist and deputy keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Speaker: Valerie Thomas, Julian Harrison, Monique Simmonds
Produced by: Ross Ziegelmeier
2018-08-1312 min
Star DiaryBluedot Festival 2018 specialIn this special edition of Radio Astronomy, we’re live at the world famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire for the Bluedot science and music festival 2018.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2018-07-2737 minAstrotalkUKEpisode 77: Satellite tracking – the early daysSven Grahn has been working in the space field in one way or another for over fifty years. Officially retired, he continues to work as a project leader of a student satellite at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
He is perhaps best known for his work in tracking satellites launched by the secretive Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s.In those pre-internet days, his work along with others helped to identify individual mission characteristics such as mission types, members of the crew, take off and landing times. He recorded over 1000 conversations from orbiting spacecraft as they flew o...
2018-07-1300 min
Instant GeniusMike Garrett: Is there anybody out there?There are 100 billion stars in our Galaxy – surely we can’t be the only intelligent lifeform out there? In this week’s Science Focus Podcast we speak to Mike Garrett, the Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, about the search for extraterrestrial life, what we’ll do if we find them, and what it means for us as humans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2018-07-1144 min
The Jodcast - InterviewsInterview with Dr. Amy TyndallJosh interviews Dr. Amy Tyndall of the University of Edinburgh, who has since moved from her PhD at Jodrell Bank into full-time outreach, both for the University of Edinburgh's biomedical research program Proteus and as Editor for the magazine Popular Astronomy.
2018-05-1608 min
Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 PlacesRadio telescopes & interferometryJoin Emma Barnett and Science & Discovery category judge Professor Lord Robert Winston as we continue our journey through the history of science and discovery in England. Visit Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to two Grade I listed radio telescopes and a centre for groundbreaking research in the fields of astronomy and interferometry, as we explore why ten places have been chosen from hundreds of your nominations. Nominate a place at HistoricEngland.org.uk/100Places A History of England in 100 Places is a Historic England podcast, sponsored by specialist insurer Ecclesiastical ecclesiastical.com
2017-10-2415 minThe JodcastOctober 2017 ExtraThe Parting Of The Ways. In the show this time, we bring you a second whistlestop tour of the amazing science that came to the 2017 Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank. Dr. Beth Rogers tells us about Guerilla archeology [00:58 - 09:23], Jon Spooner tells us how he hacked his way into space [09:33 - 22:29], Dr. Grant Munro talks about the hidden heroes of astronomy [28:16 - 48:59] and Dr. Amy Vincent tells us all about mitochondrial diseases [50:19 - 55:26].
2017-10-1957 min
Physics World Stories PodcastIlluminating a radio icon
2017 marks a couple of important anniversaries for the astrophysics community at Jodrell Bank. First, it is the 60th anniversary of the first light of the Lovell Telescope, which was the largest steerable dish telescope in the world (it is still the third largest). Second, it is the 50th anniversary of the first detection of pulsars being made by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell who was then a PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
The telescope takes its name from Sir Bernard Lovell who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1945. Over the decades, this astrophysics hub has been...
2017-10-1030 min
The Discovery Adventures3. Little Green MenTHE DISCOVERY ADVENTURES Winner: Most Original Podcast, The British Podcast Awards 2018. You, your Uncle and Rover hunt for clues at Jodrell Bank that are out of this world. Will you find them before the shadowy figure can stop you? Featuring Hugh Skinner, Natalie Dormer, Kate Silverton and Professor Lucie Green.This show is produced by CECILIA.FM and created by Becky Power, Duncan Paterson, Neill Furmston, Susan Stone and Robert Hoile. Written by James Bugg. Directed and script edited by Robbie MacInnes. Episode produced by David Waters. Sound by Gareth Fry. Music...
2017-10-0500 min
Star DiaryRadio Astronomy: Bluedot Festival 2017 SpecialRecorded live at Jodrell Bank Observatory, we bring you interviews with six of the speakers at 2017’s Bluedot Festival. In this episode: Antarctic meteorite hunting, a new CERN particle, Voyager’s legacy, the latest on ESA’s BepiColombo mission to MercuryHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2017-07-211h 10
Beyond BeliefThe MoonThe Moon has been venerated since the dawn of religion. Has Space exploration diminished its allure?
Ernie Rea's guests are Professor Ronald Hutton from Bristol University, Professor Monica Grady from the Open University, Edgar Mark Williams, author of "The Moon, Nature and Culture" and the Associate Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, Tim O'Brien.Producer Rosie Dawson.
2017-06-1228 min
The Life ScientificTim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivalsTim O'Brien has earned the nickname 'the awesome astrophysicist dude from Jodrell Bank' He is Professor of Astrophysics at Manchester University, and the associate director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, best known for the giant, iconic radio dish of the world-famous Lovell telescope which sits majestically on the Cheshire plain, where he carries out research on the behaviour of transient binary stars called novae. For twenty-five years Tim O'Brien has been telling the public about astronomy, and recently he's also become an organiser of concerts. Building on some very successful one-day events, the first Blue Dot Festival was...
2017-05-2328 min
KGNU - How On EarthNew Adventures in Astronomy with Gerrit VerschuurToday’s How on Earth show is a special edition in conjunction with the Conference on World Affairs panel entitled: “New Adventures in Astronomy”. Our guest is Gerrit Verschuur, a radio astronomer who has worked at Jodrell Bank radio observatory in the United Kingdom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, and Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Dr. Verschuur also was a faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder and was the first director of the Fiske Planetarium. His work has ranged from measuring the interstellar magnetic field, to the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, to measuring the small-scale structure...
2017-04-1326 minThe JodcastMarch 2017 ExtraFOUR FOUR SIX ZERO. Recently, the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics hosted the UK SETI Reseach Network meeting and we were waiting around corners and outside doors, trying to catch unsuspecting alien hunters to interview. We managed! In the show this time, we interview Jamie Drew and Danny Price from the Breakthrough Initiatives [06:19.50 - 33:32.50], author Stephen Baxter joins us to talk about the interface between science and science-fiction [43:17.50 - 1:10:34.2] and Mat Malenta tackles your questions on the speed of light [1:18:26.5 - 1:35:37]. We are also joined by a special guest presenter, Director of JBCA and alien hunter, Prof. Mike Garrett.
2017-03-221h 37
Sound Matters10 - Sounds from Outer SpaceOuter space is a vacuum – it’s full of a whole lot of nothing – so it’s pretty quiet out there. Or is it? Sit back, strap yourself in and lift off into the great beyond. This episode of Sound Matters features Professor Tim O’Brien of Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK and amateur radio satellite enthusiast Dave Rowntree (you might know him as the drummer in legendary Britpop band, Blur) looking at and listening to sounds from beyond our atmosphere. Also featuring sounds from the Voyager Space Probe, the planet Mars, black holes, pulsars, the solar wind, Russian cosmonaut Y...
2017-01-2700 minThe JodcastNovember 2016 ExtraSleeping Satellites. In the show this time, Katie Detwiler talks to us about the cultural anthropology of ALMA, Dr. Joe Zuntz tells us about weak lensing and his departure from Jodrell Bank and your astronomical questions are answered by Minnie, Ben and George in Ask an Astronomer.
2016-11-181h 30
Book ShamblesBlue Dot Festival - Science Shambles Pt IIIn Part 2 of the Science Shambles specials from the Blue Dot Festival from Jodrell Bank, Robin and Josie tackle the issue of evolution and bananas before we chat about scientific delight in all things bookish with a bumper lineup of guests. There's science presenters and writers Dallas Campbell and Ginny Smith, immunologist Sheena Cruickshank, astronomer Paul Abel, the team from ScienceGrrl, impressionist Jon Culshaw and Public Service Broadcasting's J Willgoose. Because this episode was recorded in a large field where a music festival was also taking place, there is often a bit of background noise. Sorry about that.
2016-08-141h 21Book ShamblesBlue Dot Festival - Science Shambles Pt IRecorded at the Blue Dot Festival at Jodrell Bank, Robin chatted with various people about the great works of science and science fiction. And also some Mills and Boons. Robin and Josie kick things off and then our guests include physicist and professional pointer at wondrous things, Professor Brian Cox, Rosetta project scientist Dr Matt Taylor, space scientist Professor Monica Grady and actor, comedian and science writer Ben Miller. Because this episode was recorded in a large field where a music festival was also taking place, there is often a bit of background noise. Sorry about that.
2016-08-1055 min
Naked Astronomy, from the Naked ScientistsFrom The Blue Dot FestivalThe Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot music festival at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire where they hear live music from Cern's cosmic piano and chat to Rosetta project scientist (and space celebrity) Matt Taylor about the end of the mission. Richard also meets the band that bounced a guitar riff off the Moon and Sue reports from the Farnborough Airshow, where she asks Tim Peake about his body and learns about plans for a new lunar mission. In another first, they even have a producer: Izzie Clarke. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
2016-08-1035 minSpace Boffins, from the Naked ScientistsFrom The Blue Dot FestivalThe Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot music festival at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire where they hear live music from Cern's cosmic piano and chat to Rosetta project scientist (and space celebrity) Matt Taylor about the end of the mission. Richard also meets the band that bounced a guitar riff off the Moon and Sue reports from the Farnborough Airshow, where she asks Tim Peake about his body and learns about plans for a new lunar mission. In another first, they even have a producer: Izzie Clarke. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
2016-08-1035 minThe Infinite Monkey CageThe Universe: What Remains to Be Discovered?Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at the Blue Dot Festival, at the home of Radio Astronomy, Jodrell Bank. They are joined on stage by Ben Miller, Charlotte Church, Dr Paul Abel and Professor Tim O'Brien to explore the big questions that are still to be answered about our Universe.
2016-08-0146 min
The Star SpotEpisode 99 Pulsars and the Detection of Gravitational Waves, with Ingrid StairsFeature Guest: Ingrid Stairs
In February scientists announced the first ever discovery of gravitational waves, tiny distortions in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein exactly 100 years ago. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, made the historic detection by studying two colliding black holes, but singularities aren’t the only source of gravitational waves. Here to tell us how pulsars, the lighthouses of the galaxy, can be used to study gravitational waves and help us understand the forces of our universe, today we’re joined at The Star Spot by pulsar authority Ingrid Stairs
2016-04-1836 minThe JodcastFebruary 2016Recovering. Last month, we had the BBC here at Jodrell Bank for the filming of the annual Stagazing Live specials. We were lucky enough to get backstage access, leading to some fantastic interviews with those involved in the show and in The Zooniverse's new citizen science project Pulsar Hunters. In the show this time, we talk to Sally Cooper about her role as Pulsar Hunter during BBC Stargazing Live [11:03.863 - 26:25.420], Dr Brooke Simmons about Pulsar Zoo and her role behind the scenes of the public's search for new pulsars [28:26.288 - 46:45.977], Dr Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project lead, about the current status...
2016-02-012h 22The Infinite Monkey CageEpisode 2Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory, and how a mathematical equation written 100 years ago seems to have predicted so accurately exactly how our universe works. From black holes to the expanding universe, every observation of the universe, so far, has been held up by the maths in Einstein's extraordinary work. So how was he able to predict the events and behaviour of our universe, long before the technology existed to prove he was right, and will there ever be another theory that will supersede it? Brian and Robin head up the iconic Lovell...
2015-12-1527 min
BBC Radio ManchesterJodrell Bank and the Cold WarAll week @bbcradiomanc looks at Greater Manchester's links to the cold war. The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Macclesfield was the only radar system capable of detecting intercontinental missiles.
Sir Bernard Lovell was the leader of the team that built the telescope - Dr Bryan Lovell is his son and has been speaking to Alison Butterworth.
2015-06-1602 minThe JodcastApril 2015 ExtraBuzzing. In the show this time, we talk to Dr Matt Taylor about landing a probe on a comet [11:21 - 24:51] and to Dr Buzz Aldrin about landing a person on the Moon [25:11 - 34:29], Jamie Sloan tells us about the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre in this month's JodBite [03:46 - 11:04], and your astronomical questions are answered by Dr Iain McDonald in Ask an Astronomer [43:38 - 50:09].
2015-04-1852 min
A Duck in a TreeA Duck in a Tree 2014-11-22 | The Past Alternative
The 124th of a weekly series of radio programmes created by :zoviet*france:
First broadcast 22 November 2014 by Resonance 104.4 FM
Our thanks go out to the artists and sound recordists included here for their fine work.
track list
01 Necro Deathmort - Überlord
02 Pete Woodhead - Silica
03 Félix Blume - Mexico
04 François Bayle - Camera oscura – Sept préludes: 4 – Toccata
05 [unknown sound recordist – bird song] - calt2
06 Femme - Le Codex An...
2014-11-2558 min
Plants: From Roots to RichesBotanical MedicineIn 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids". This powerful family of plant chemicals was proving a potent medical tool.Professor Kathy Willis traces the natural role of alkaloids in plants and the first attempts to isolate one of the best know - quinine, from chinchona bark growing in the Andes. This development gave rise to the emergence of a new kind of laboratory scientist equally able to handle botanical and chemical data. As Mark Nesbitt, Keeper of Kew's Economic Botany...
2014-08-0814 minPlants: From Roots to RichesMultiple GenesIn 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato field outside the Dutch town of Hilversum caught the eye of German botanist Hugo de Vries. Its huge blooms and large leaves appeared to suggest the sudden development of a new species. Around the same time in Kew Gardens a mysterious primula hybrid appeared. The new discipline of plant genetics soon revealed that this curious trick was being driven by multiplication of chromosomes inside the plant cell nucleus.Professor Kathy Willis examines this phenomenon - known as polyploidy ( "multiple forms") - and how insights into this peculiarity...
2014-08-0514 minPlants: From Roots to RichesLumping and SplittingBy 1850 identifying and classifying plants had become far more important than mere list making. Establishing the global laws of botany - what grew where and why - occupied the well travelled naturalist Joseph Hooker - son of Kew's director William Hooker and close friend of Charles Darwin. Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on how Hooker was to acquire species from all over the world to build up the first accurate maps of the world's flora.Mark Nesbitt, curator of Kew's economic botany collection, reveals how gifts to Hooker in the collection reveal the relationship between...
2014-07-2514 min
A Duck in a TreeA Duck in a Tree 2014-06-21 | The Measurement of Echoes with Powder
The 102nd of a weekly series of radio programmes created by :zoviet*france: for Basic.fm.
First broadcast 21 June 2014.
Our thanks go out to the artists and sound recordists included here for their fine work.
track list
01 Djivan Gasparian - My Home
02 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Ext: Fast Pass Left to Right
03 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Zaire: Street
04 Sun City Girls - Brahmaputra Plutonium
05 Mikael Stavöstrand - [untitled]
06 Jeremy Keenan - CGMS-10...
2014-06-2459 minAstrotalkUKEpisode 60: Square Kilometre ArrayArtists impression - from http://www.skatelescope.org/
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a global science and engineering project to build a revolutionary new radio telescope with extraordinary scientific ambitions.
With funding from ten nations the building of the SKA will start in 2016 and be fully operational in 2024. It will tackle some of the profoundest questions of cosmology associated with organic molecules, gravitational waves, pulsars orbiting black holes and light from the earliest stars that illuminated the universe. To do this the SKA will require super computers, innovative new power stations and high speed communication links that currently do not ex...
2013-01-0900 minThe JodcastDecember 2012 ExtraPast, Present, Future. In the show this time, Dr Dave Jones [13:01 - 29:26] tells us about an unusual planetary nebula, Professor Phil Diamond [02:24 - 12:47] talks about the new Square Kilometre Array headquarters at Jodrell Bank in this month's JodBite and Dr Iain McDonald [39:28 - 47:24] answers your astronomical questions in Ask an Astronomer.
2012-12-1751 minThe JodcastAugust 2012 ExtraSir Bernard Lovell, 1913-2012. We begin this episode with a look back at the life of Sir Bernard Lovell [1:03 - 5:56], founder of Jodrell Bank, who sadly died on the 6th of August at the age of 98. We also talk to Prof. Alan Hood [15:51 - 23:53] about the solar atmosphere, Dr. Jacqueline Hodge [24:00 - 30:56] about observing submillimetre galaxies with the VLA, and Prof. Ray Norris [31:05 - 45:16] about the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) project. This month's Jodbite features Jo Bowler [7:00 - 15:38] who tells us about the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and Dr Mark Purver answers your astronomical questions in Ask an...
2012-08-171h 18The JodcastJuly 2012 ExtraAnti-ageing. In this episode we talk to Dr Fraser Clarke [14:37 - 24:05] about the E-ELT telescope, Dr Lisa Kaltenegger [24:28 - 29:40] about rocky exoplanets, and Dr Michelle Collins [29:58 - 42:49] about dwarf galaxies. We also talk to Kim Mance [1:53 - 14:27] about life as a controller at Jodrell Bank Observatory in this month's JodBite, and your astronomical questions are answered by Dr Iain McDonald in Ask an Astronomer [51:41 - 62:44].
2012-07-161h 04The JodcastJune 2012 ExtraTwice-in-a-lifetime. In this episode we talk to Dr Katharine Johnston [10:35 - 18:32] about massive star formation, Professor Ed Copeland [18:40 - 30:18] about alternative theories of gravity, and Dr Dave Jones [30:31 - 43:00] about binary stars and astronomy at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). We also talk to Mike Anderson [3:02 - 10:26] about managing the site at Jodrell Bank Observatory in this month's JodBite, and your astronomical questions are answered by Dr Tim O'Brien in Ask an Astronomer [54:09 - 72:35].
2012-06-181h 14The JodcastApril 2012 ExtraAlternative. In the show this time, Dr Christine Jordan tells us about the computers that run the telescope and about the data processing at Jodrell Bank in this month's JodBite [0:56 - 10:44], we talk to Prof. Raman Prinja about stellar winds in massive stars [10:50 - 22:24], Dr Paulo Freire talks about testing alternative theories of gravity using pulsars [22:34 - 44:28] and your astronomical questions are answered by Dr Melanie Gendre [51:11 - 59:11].
2012-04-161h 01The JodcastFebruary 2012 ExtraTurtle. In the show this time, Dr Danielle Fenech [11:32 - 27:15] tells us about starburst galaxies and we talk to Dr Ant Holloway [01:20 - 11:25] about his role at Jodrell Bank in the JodBite. Your astronomical questions are answered [33:26 - 44:42] by Dr Tim O'Brien in Ask an Astronomer and we round up some odds and ends from the world of astronomy.
2012-02-1748 minThe JodcastJanuary 2012 ExtraBitten. In the show this time, Dr David Floyd [12:24 - 35:22] tells us about microlensing and we talk to Dr Tim O'Brien [01:22 - 12:17] about his role at Jodrell Bank in the first ever JodBite. Your questions are answered [43:53 - 55:39] by Dr Iain McDonald in Ask an Astronomer and we round up some odds and ends from the world of astronomy.
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Front Row: Archive 2011Gerard Butler; Kate Prince from Zoo NationWith Kirsty Lang. The enduring fascination with Wallis Simpson continues in The Last of the Duchess, a new play by Nicholas Wright. Juliet Gardiner reviews Richard Eyre's production, and considers Simpson's recent popularity in film, television and literature. Gerard Butler discusses his role in the film Machine Gun Preacher, based on the true story of a drug dealer who becomes a crusader for children caught up in conflict in Africa. Kate Prince is the founder and creative director of Zoo Nation, an award winning dance and theatre company. Their show Into The Hoods...
2011-10-2728 minThe JodcastApril 2011Arriba! Arriba! In this episode we talk to 4 members of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics: Dr Bob Watson [09:30 - 13:49] tells us about the cosmic microwave background radiation, Dr Cristobal Espinoza [13:49 - 21:03] tells us about pulsar glitches, Dr Jaime Pineda [21:03 - 27:28] tells us about star formation and Matias Vidal [27:28 - 33:42] tells us about cosmology. As usual, Megan has the latest astronomical news [02:15 - 08:34] and Ian Morison and John Field tell us what's in the night sky [40:07 - 60:01]
2011-04-031h 05The JodcastDecember 2009After months of talking about it we finally recorded an episode (1 of 2) with a live studio audience. In this bumper show we have an interview with Dr Chris Lintott where we find out about the latest results from Galaxy Zoo [18:36-50:08]. As always, Megan brings us the latest news [08:12-17:56], we discuss recent events in space [67:54-83:00] and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the December night sky [50:29-67:32]. Our cover art shows some of the presenters and audience who braved the rain at Jodrell Bank during Jodcast Live.
2009-12-021h 28The JodcastJuly 2009 ExtraWith it being the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Earth's Moon, we dedicate most of this episode to things lunar. We mention the latest amazing images from NASA's LRO showing the Apollo landing sites from orbit, Sir Bernard Lovell describes Jodrell Bank's involvement with the space race including tracking the Soviet's Luna probes and involvement with Apollo [04:35-32:00]. As always we put your astronomical questions to Dr Tim O'Brien [32:05-42:46] and round-up the feedback we've received since the last show.
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The History of Science MuseumTelescopes Now Lecture 2: Jodrell Bank, the Lovell Telescope and e-MERLINIn the second in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in the telescope, Professor Phil Diamond talks about his work at Jodrell Bank on E-Merlin, and in particular the Lovell Telescope. Phil Diamond is Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.In his lecture he touches on some of the practical, political, technical, financial and organisational challenges faced by the teams who developed Jodrell Bank and built e-MERLIN.
2009-03-031h 11The JodcastOctober 2008 ExtraWe find out about the Jodrell Bank Meteor Detector from Eddie Blackhurst [02:25-11:47]. We talk to Roberta Paladini about her studies of astronomical objects - such as our own galaxy - that obscure observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation [31:37-01:01:24]. Tim answers listener questions about astronomy [11:59-29:55].
2008-10-171h 01The JodcastAugust 2008On 1st August 2008 parts of the world experienced a total solar eclipse. In the UK we saw a partial solar eclipse and the Jodcast was at Jodrell Bank Observatory with our eclipse special. We talk to Dr Phillipa Browning about eclipses and the state of our knowledge about the solar atmosphere [15:15 - 21:09] and to Professor Mark Edmonds about the evidence that prehistoric people had an interest in the Sun, Moon and stars. As usual we also get the latest news from Megan [02:35 - 10:59] and find out what you can see in the night sky from Ian [31:50 - 43:10].
2008-08-0247 minThe JodcastJune 2008In this show we talk about Mars Phoenix Lander touching down on Mars and sending back its first results. In our interview Ben Maughan tells us how he has been weighing clusters of galaxies. Tim O'Brien tells us about events at Jodrell Bank Observatory over the next month including the Longest Day Garden Party. We also get the latest news from Megan and find out what you can see in the night sky from Ian.
2008-06-0459 minThe JodcastMarch 2008 ExtraThis issue we talk to Dr Maria-Rosa Cioni from the University of Hertfordshire about the concept of metallicity and how we can use it to learn about galaxy evolution. We also learn about the current funding crisis facing astronomy in the UK from Dr Tim O'Brien, how it may affect Jodrell Bank Observatory, and what you can do to help.
2008-03-1734 minThe JodcastDecember 2007 ExtraIn the last Jodcast of 2007 Ken Kellermann and Dave Jauncey tell us about the discovery of quasars, particularly the lunar occultations of 3C 273 in the early 1960s. Jodcast newcomer Roy Smits gives us a summary of the Jodrell Bank Illuminate Art event and we ask your astronomical questions to Dr Edward Boyce.
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Public lecture podcastsWilliam Herschel Society lecture 2007: Radio astronomy at Jodrell BankProfessor Phil Diamond, Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, talks about the research activities at the observatory, home to one of the world's biggest and most powerful radio telescopes.
2007-11-2057 minThe JodcastSeptember 2007We're back from our August break with a bumper show for you. We talk to Professor Gregor Morfill about the ability of dust to form amazing shapes in space. We also have the first of a three part interview with Jodrell Bank founder Sir Bernard Lovell. As usual we also get the latest news from Megan and Ian Morison tells us what we can see in the night sky this month.
2007-09-021h 21The JodcastJune 2007Tick, tick, tick. Forty years on from the first observations of pulsating neutron stars we talk to the discoverer of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She tells us about her PhD and how an 'annoying bit of scruff' turned into a fascinating area of research. We also hear about the Jodrell Bank First Move Literary Festival happening in June. As always, we have the latest news with Megan and Ian tells us what we can see in the night sky from the northern hemisphere.
2007-05-311h 01The JodcastFebruary 2007This month we look back to the past, at the present and into the future; you'd almost think we stole the plot from A Christmas Carol. Ian Morison talks to Sir Bernard Lovell about the origins of Jodrell Bank Observatory. We catch up with Chris Davis of the spacePod podcast to get the latest news on NASA's STEREO mission. Stuart talks to David Boyce about the possibility of ultraviolet astronomy from the Moon and of course we ask Tim your questions, get the news from Megan and Ian tells us what we can see in the night sky during February.
2007-02-021h 12The JodcastSeptember 2006This month, after all the excitement of the IAU General Assembly planet definition, we stay a bit closer to home and have a tour of the Jodrell Bank Control Room. We find out about the Lovell Telescope winning the BBC unsung landmarks vote and plans for our new Visitor Centre. We get the latest astronomy news which includes geysers on Mars, the impact of ESA's SMART-1 on the Moon and the outcome of the IAU's planet definition. As always we find out what we can see in the night sky this month and Nick and Tim discuss the Moon receding...
2006-09-011h 13The JodcastAugust 2006This month's show is all about stars. We talk to Dr Tim O'Brien about a recurrent nova in the constellation of Ophiuchus and Johanna Ashwell - an amateur astronomer and PhD student - tells us about a star that has too much lithium. As ever we get the latest round-up of the news and find out what we can see in the night sky this month. There is news of a star party being held at Jodrell Bank on 12th August from 9pm until midnight and we also mention our exciting plans to podcast from the International Astronomical Union's General...
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