Dame Maggie Aderin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Feb
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And in fact, when I mentioned sort of science to people, they'd look at me, also sort of quite a chopped up education.
So sort of all over the place and then undiagnosed dyslexia.
And so when I said, oh, science, why don't you go into nursing?
Because it's sort of, you know, it's sort of scientific, but, you know, it's not so hard.
That's the sort of level you should be aiming for.
But I got the space bug before time I can remember.
And how?
I think partly the moon landings.
Because I was born in 1968.
Moon landings happened in 69.
And so I was just brought up in that buzz of activity.
People telling me that taxi drivers are saying, yeah, we're going to do an EVA, an extra vehicle activity.
Because when they're taking the detour.
Because it was just part of the psyche.
And because I think I was brought up in that.
And my father loved the moon because it was his friend when he was in Nigeria because it helped him when he was cycling across the savannah on unlit roads.
Oh, wow.
It lit the way for him.
Yes.
Yeah, but the thing is, and also growing up in London, because we were sort of growing up in inner city London, so you can't see many stars and stuff like that.
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