The Jodcast

November 2025

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Reaching the Stars. In this month’s episode, we’ve got lots of exciting interviews. This year, the UK Space Conference was held in Manchester so w...

January 2026

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Same Planet, New Year. This month, we are kicking off the new year with a special interview with Science communicator and climate advocate, Dr Simon C...

March 2026

02 Mar 2026

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Into the Cosmic Void. This month, we have a double cosmology interview special where Sohini and Jamie chat with Marika Asgari about her work on cosmic...

February 2026

02 Feb 2026

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Blue Skies Ahead! This month, we have an interview with Professor Jonathan Tennyson where he chats to Louisa and Lily about his founding of the satell...

December 2025

01 Dec 2025

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Feeling the Cosmic Pulse. In this month's episode, Jessy and Barbara had the opportunity to speak to Dr Kai Schmitz of the University of Munster about...

October 2025

01 Oct 2025

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Simons Observatory Special.With Manchester playing a key role within the Simon Observatory’s development, we’ve recorded a special episode during ...

July 2025

04 Jul 2025

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From Stars to Cells. In this month’s episode, we interview Dr Mel Ifran about her research adapting machine learning techniques from radio astronomy...

June 2025

02 Jun 2025

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Galaxy Redshifts - A hard thing to nail down. In this month’s episode, we interview Prof Joe Zuntz about his research into clustering galaxies for ...

May 2025

01 May 2025

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Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations. In this month’s episode, we have a double interview special as we get the opportunity to talk to Dame ...

April 2025

01 Apr 2025

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Bursting 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...

March 2025

01 Mar 2025

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Exoplanets from the Archives. In this month’s episode, we have another interview from the archive where Fiona talks to Faith Hawthorn about her work...

February 2025

01 Feb 2025

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A Blast from the Past. In this month’s episode, we are hearing from a familiar voice as we are joined by now Dr. Ian Harrrison as he talks to us ab...

January 2025

13 Jan 2025

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Cloudy with a Chance of Stars. In this month’s episode, we have two interviews from back in 2022: one with with Eloy de Lera Acedo and another with ...

December 2024

01 Dec 2024

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Shining a Light on Dark Matter. In December's episode, we have delved into the archive for an interview with Grace Lawrence from 2022; she talks with...

November 2024

01 Nov 2024

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Exploring Exoplanets with JWST. In November's episode, Mel talks to Dr Hannah Wakeford on her work in the field of exoplanets, utilising JWST to delv...

October 2024

01 Oct 2024

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How to build your own radio telescope!. In this episode, Louisa talks to Dr. Danny Jacobs about radio cosmology and the physical challenges that face...

September 2024

01 Sep 2024

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Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, and Semantics. In the show this time, Mél Azombo interviews Dr. Ed Gillen about the evolution of stellar and planetary syst...

July 2024

01 Jul 2024

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To celebrate the first images from the Euclid Mission, we are doing a special Euclid episode

June 2024

01 Jun 2024

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The CMB and it's B-modes. In this episode, Kammy and Jonathan interview Dr William Coulton from the Centre of Computational Astronomy in New York and ...

May 2024

01 May 2024

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Galaxy evolution: not so sim(ple)ulations.This month, Kammy and Jessy are joined by Dr. Ana Duarte Cabral from Cardiff University, where she discusses...

April 2024

01 Apr 2024

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ABC's of GRB's. In this episode, Soheb interview Dr Gavin Lamb from Liverpool John Moores University and they discuss the exotic nature of gamma ra...

March 2024

01 Mar 2024

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Feel the Magnetic Pull. In this episode, Jessy Marin talks to Dr. Kate Pattle about her work studying the involvment of magnetic fields in star format...

February 2024

01 Feb 2024

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Blueberries and Peas. In February's episode, Fiona interviews Dr Alex Cameron on his work understanding the properties of early galaxies using JWST, ...

January 2024

01 Jan 2024

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Bluedot 2023 Special. In this episode, Fiona Porter travels to Bluedot and interviews Dr. Rebecca Bowler, Sheena Cruickshank, and Jen Gupta. Additio...

December 2021

18 Dec 2021

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Hello? Is there anybody there? In the show this time, we talk to Tom Scragg about Pulsar timing arrays [07:43:00 - 00:41:43], Jonathan Wong rounds up ...

May 2021

21 May 2021

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Back in Business. In the show this time, we talk to Bert Hawkins and Matt Morgan about their work at the NRAO [06:32.5-37:49.0], Amy Suddards rounds u...

December 2020

19 Dec 2020

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2020 Is Over. In the show this time, we talk to Kaustav Basu about The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect [6:32 - 16:39], Cameron Bogue rounds up the latest new...

November 2020

02 Dec 2020

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A-RIP-bo. In the show this time, we talk to Taïssa Danilovich about the chemistry of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars [05:46 - 27:57], Michael Wright ro...

October 2020

28 Oct 2020

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Worthy Winners. In the show this time, we talk to Sofia Wallstrom about Studies of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars with TESS [09:03.00-27:14.00], Michae...

September 2020

21 Sep 2020

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A Pair of Planets. In the show this time, we talk to Andrew Tkachenko about Stellar astrophysics in the era of big data [04:43.00-29:21.00], Fiona Por...

August 2020

07 Aug 2020

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Sights Scarce Seen. In the show this time, we talk to Rosita Kokotanekova about her work on Jupiter family comets [07:42 - 25:51], George Bendo rounds...

May 2020

27 May 2020

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Breaking Apart. In the show this time, Emma Alexander rounds up the latest news [00:56.96-07:22.00] and we find out what we can see in the May night s...

Month 4 2020

01 Apr 2020

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Keeping It Simple. In the show this time, we talk to Stewart Eyres about his study of a star that blew up a long time ago [03:48 - 21:30], Luke Hart r...

March 2020

16 Mar 2020

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Kaboom. In the show this time, we talk to Rebecca Bowler about galaxies in the early universe [04:09.0 - 20:25.5], Alice Humpage rounds up the latest ...

February 2020

19 Feb 2020

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A Fond Farewell. In the show this time, we talk to Anais Moller about machine learning to find supernovae for cosmology [04:42.00 - 26:19.20], Alice ...

January 2020

27 Jan 2020

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Now You See It... In the show this time, we talk to Alexandre Lazarian about magnetic fields in astronomy [07:38 - 30:49], Michael Wright rounds up th...

December 2019 Extra

20 Dec 2019

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Novae. In the show this time, we talk to Simon Johnston about Searching for pulsars [32:53.3 - 46:54.0], Laura Driessen...

December 2019

10 Dec 2019

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Who's afraid of big, bad numbers? In the show this time, we talk to Bobby Seagull about the mathematics of astronomy and popularising maths among the ...

November 2019

15 Nov 2019

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Baby Black Holes and Blobs. In the show this time, we talk to Connor Smith about searching for blobs in the submillimetre regime [05:53 - 21:19], Fion...

October 2019 Extra

24 Oct 2019

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Mission to Transition. In the show this time, we talk to Atsuhisa Ota about his work studying anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background [10:02 -...

October 2019

11 Oct 2019

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Worlds Big and Small. In the show this time, we talk to Sadie Jones about her outreach work at the University of Southampton [03:58 - 14:57], Alice Hu...

September 2019

13 Sep 2019

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Circling in. In the show this time, we talk to Fabio Antonini about modelling gravitational wave sources[08:57 - 26:09], Michael Wright rounds up the ...

August 2019

08 Aug 2019

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Small Steps. In the show this time, we talk to Jonathan Pober about his work with 21cm line and understanding galaxy formation and cosmology [06:42.0-...

July 2019

11 Jul 2019

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To The Moon and Buck(yballs). In the show this time, we talk to Jess Wade about her work within public engagement with science [05:56.2 - 38:11], Fion...

June 2019

07 Jun 2019

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Milky way mergers, moon mining and mice. In the show this time, we talk to Stephane Corbel about the Nancay observatory [09:01 - 36:19], Emma Alexande...

May 2019

10 May 2019

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Seeing the Invisible. In the show this time, we talk to Syksy Rasanen about black holes as dark matter candidates and the future of scientific publish...

April 2019 Extra

17 Apr 2019

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Chasing the horizon. In the show this time, we talk to Leen Decin about the ATOMIUM project [25:50 - 41:32], Tana Joseph tells us about black hole bin...

April 2019

01 Apr 2019

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Asteroids, Aliens and All That. In the show this time, we talk to Matt Smith about dusty star formation in nearby galaxies [07:09 - 17:22], Fiona Port...

March 2019

08 Mar 2019

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Fresh starts and fond farewells! In the show this time, we talk to Joe Callingham about his work with colliding wind binaries[09:28.78 - 31:26.64], Mi...

February 2019 Extra

27 Feb 2019

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Commensal. In the show this time, we talk to Leon Koopmans about EoR studies with the 21cm line and gravitational lensing [16:52 - 42:35], Ben Stapper...

February 2019

11 Feb 2019

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Try turning it off and on again! In the show this time, we talk to Katherine Mack about Dark matter, academic globetrotting and science communication ...

January 2019

16 Jan 2019

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Missions: past and present!!. In the show this time, we talk to Chris Flynn about Observing Fast Radio Bursts, plus using the Moon to study climate c...

December 2018 Extra

11 Jan 2019

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There And Back Again. In the show this time, we talk to Morgane Fortin about using neutron stars as multimessenger laboratories [29:51 - 44:53], Justi...

December 2018 Pantomime

11 Jan 2019

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Our panto-meister Dave Ault is taking a well-earned break from script writing this year, but two of our Jodcasters have stepped up to deliver The Lord...

December 2018

07 Dec 2018

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Seeing Double. In the show this time, we talk to Amaury Triaud about exoplanets, especially the TRAPPIST-1 system [06:24 - 34:49], Fiona Porter rounds...

November 2018 Extra

26 Nov 2018

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Falling with hotDOGS. In the show this time, we talk to Bernie Fanaroff and Rob Adam about using science to inform policy-makers, and the future of A...

November 2018

09 Nov 2018

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Fixers. In the show this time, we talk to Richard Bower about simulating the Universe with the EAGLE project [06:32 - 29:05], Shruti Badole rounds up ...

October 2018

11 Oct 2018

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Monsters in the Studio. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Tony Irving about finding and studying Martian meteorites [06:40 - 23:26], Emma Alexande...

September 2018 Extra

27 Sep 2018

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In this Thai-themed special, we talk to Prof. Boonrucksar Soonthornthum about NARIT, Princess Sirindhorn's visit to JBO and Thai/Manchester collaborat...

September 2018

14 Sep 2018

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An episode of beginnings! In the show this time, we talk to Emily Drabeck-Maunder about forming habitable planets [10:59 - 24:48], Mateusz Malenta rou...

August 2018

07 Aug 2018

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Summer Patchwork, part II. In the show this time, we talk to Kunal Mooley about EM counterparts to gravitational waves [07:59 - 23:21], Jake Staberg M...

July 2018

24 Jul 2018

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Absent Friends. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Christina Smith about Mars, Pluto and Canada [04:11 - 19:40], Nialh McCallum rounds up the lates...

June/July 2018 Extra

14 Jul 2018

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Originally titled 'Friends of Neutron Stars'. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Anna Watts about thermonuclear bursts on neutron stars [35:55 - 58...

June 2018

08 Jun 2018

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The Golden Future. In the show this time, we talk to Daniele Michilli about the repeating fast radio burst and its environment [06:42.494 - 15:00.334]...

EWASS/NAM 2018

16 May 2018

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In this special episode we have an EWASS/NAM extravaganza, brought to you from the floor of the cross-over event held in Liverpool in April 2018, wher...

April 2018 Extra

28 Apr 2018

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Very Close and Very Far. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Steven Longmore tells us about star formation in the galactic centre [11:29 - 27:16], D...

April 2018

31 Mar 2018

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Formerly known as the Jodcast! In the show this time, we talk to Fiona Healy about novae and the genesis of The Fiona Show , Fiona Healy rounds up the...

March 2018 Extra

19 Mar 2018

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Brains in Space. In the show this time, we talk to Helen Fraser about Laboratory astrophysics and astrochemistry [00:23:17.018 - 00:38:22.111], Dr Ada...

March 2018

01 Mar 2018

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Sparkly, but in a good way! In the show this time, we talk to Prof. Michael Shara about novae and the American Museum of Natural History [07:01 - 34:2...

February 2018 Extra

20 Feb 2018

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Through a Lens. In the show this time, we talk to Hugo Messias about Gravitational lensing [34:50 - 1:01:41], Bob Watson tells us about Three decades ...

February 2018

06 Feb 2018

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Still Standing. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Robert Minchin about how to do astronomy after a hurricane [08:23 - 39:45], Emma Alexander round...

January 2018

08 Jan 2018

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New Year, New Missions. In the show this time, we talk to Dr Allison Kirkpatrick about the use of infrared in the detection of star forming regions in...

December 2017 Extra

20 Dec 2017

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Commencing countdown, engines on! In the show this time, we talk to Prof. Andrew Coates about the hunt for life in our Solar System [26:04 - 47:47], D...

December 2017

04 Dec 2017

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Rocky bodies are operating in this area! In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Romain Tartese about the upcoming PROSPECT lunar mission [07:37 - 22:15...

November 2017 Extra

22 Nov 2017

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Pulsars and beyond. In the show this time it is almost all about pulsars with most of the interviews from IAU 50 Years of Pulsars conference in Septem...

November 2017

07 Nov 2017

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... and under new management, but still not on time! In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Premana Premadi, Dr. Hesti Wulandari, Dr. Taufiq Hidayat an...

October 2017 Extra

19 Oct 2017

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The 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 a...

October 2017

04 Oct 2017

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Blown Away. In the show this time, we talk to Dr Federico Urban about bigravity, graviton and dark matter [08:01 - 22:54], Beth Jones rounds up the la...

September 2017 Extra

22 Sep 2017

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Measuring Star Formation. In the show this time, we present a series of interviews with Sarah Leslie [03:31 - 20:14], Jacinta Delhaize [20:25 - 40:43]...

September 2017

15 Sep 2017

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To infinity. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Jason McEwen about next generation radio telescopes [08:10 - 17:13], Ian and Fiona round up the lat...

Bluedot 2017

23 Aug 2017

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Bluedot 2017. In the show this time, Fiona and Monique take you on a whistlestop tour of the 2017 bluedot festival. We talk to Vicky Dewar-Fowler abou...

August 2017

11 Aug 2017

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Summer Patchwork. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Caitriona Jackman about adventures in the outer Solar System [05:21 - 21:29], Josh Hayes round...

July 2017

05 Jul 2017

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Non-responsive. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Adam Amara about A holistic approach to cosmology [10:10 - 25:23], Mat Malenta rounds up the lat...

June 2017

10 Jun 2017

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Cosmic Sneezing. In the show this time, we talk to Thomas Tauris about compact stars, pulsars and outreach [10:00 - 33:55], Ian Evans rounds up the la...

May 2017 Extra

22 May 2017

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For whom the skies burst. In the show this time, Dr Elisabetta Valiante talks to us about the Herschel-ATLAS survey [21:38 - 44:40], Josh Hayes and ...

May 2017

14 May 2017

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Rebuilt to be better, stronger... but not faster. In the show this time, we talk to Prof. Ian Morison about being Ian Morison [11:25 - 36:59], Ian Har...

April 2017 Extra

25 Apr 2017

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All Hope In Eclipse. In the show this time, Dr Stefan Soldner-Rembold talks to us about the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment [22:31 - 45:45], Dr. ...

April 2017

01 Apr 2017

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Going Radio Gaga. In the wake of some sad news, we talk to Dr. Alessandro Navarrini about new technologies for radio telescopes [11:12 - 29:03], Mateu...

March 2017 Extra

22 Mar 2017

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FOUR FOUR SIX ZERO. Recently, the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics hosted the UK SETI Reseach Network meeting and we were waiting around corners a...

March 2017

01 Mar 2017

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Habitable and Earth-like. In the show this time, we talk to Prof Marten van Kerkwijk about pulsar scintellometry [11:34-41:41], Ian Harrison rounds u...

February 2017

11 Feb 2017

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Astrologists. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Teo Munoz Darias about X-ray binaries, [09:40 - 34:45], Mat rounds up the latest news [00:45 - 09:...

January 2017 Extra

23 Jan 2017

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A Falcon Led The Iridium Ark. In the show this time, Elaine Sadler talks to us about the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) [14:28 -...

December 2016 Extra

24 Dec 2016

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Merry. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Cristina Romero-Canizales about LIRGI: radio survey of ultra-luminous IR galaxies [27:25 - 42:40], new Di...

December 2016

02 Dec 2016

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The radio star returns. In the show this time, we talk to Professor Ray Norris about EMU: The Evolutionary Map of the Universe [09:03 - 36:19], Ian Ha...

November 2016 Extra

18 Nov 2016

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Sleeping Satellites. In the show this time, Katie Detwiler talks to us about the cultural anthropology of ALMA, Dr. Joe Zuntz tells us about weak lens...

November 2016

04 Nov 2016

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Crashing harder than Schiaparelli. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Laura Spitler about a repeating fast radio burst [10:56 - 33:29], Ian Evans r...

October 2016 Extra

28 Oct 2016

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Descent into the Maelstrom. In the show this time, Prof. Tetsuo Hatsuda talks to us about quarks and neutron stars [33:1.84 - 55:48.4], Dr. Mitch Mick...

October 2016

13 Oct 2016

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We need to go faster. In the show this time, we talk to Professor Vik Dhillon about high-speed astronomy [14:12 - 45:47], Mat rounds up the latest new...

September 2016 Extra

30 Sep 2016

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Strange Machines. In the show this time, Dr Michelle Lochner talks to us about machine learning and supernova classification, we say farewell to Megan...

September 2016

05 Sep 2016

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More bees than a Proxima hive. In the show this time, we talk to Dr. Francesco Shankar about AGN [11:55 - 38:48], Ian rounds up the latest news [01:34...