The Jodcast
Episodes
November 2007
01 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Is there intelligent life out there? In this issue we find out about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence and ask listeners to complete our s...
October 2007 Extra
17 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
We've got another bumper show for you starting with some interviews we recorded at the Modern Radio Universe conference. We talk to the Astronomer Roy...
October 2007
01 Oct 2007
Contributed by Lukas
It is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and we're going back to 1957 with the last part of our Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell. In the re...
September 2007 Extra
17 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This issue we present the second part of our 'Audience with Sir Bernard Lovell' bringing the story up to the start of October 1957. We also have Ask a...
September 2007
02 Sep 2007
Contributed by Lukas
We'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 s...
August 2007
02 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Galaxies galore! This month we focus on stellar cities; we have an interview with Martin Bureau about the formation of galaxies and we chat to Chris L...
July 2007 Extra
21 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Nick are here for the mid-July show. We present part two of our Harry Potter-style intros (The Chamber of Anti-Science) with a special cameo ...
July 2007
01 Jul 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Despite rumours that Baron Deathmortes is at large, we put on our rather damp Jodcast invisibility cloak and sneaked out to the astronomy tower to rec...
June 2007 Extra
15 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Nick, Dave and Stuart are all in the same room to record this mid-month Jodcast. We talk to Benoit Famaey about possible corrections to Newton's famou...
June 2007
31 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Tick, tick, tick. Forty years on from the first observations of pulsating neutron stars we talk to the discoverer of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Sh...
May 2007 Extra
15 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of our new mid-month shows. First we get some breaking news from the Hubble Space Telescope, we listen to the second half of our int...
May 2007
01 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
May 2007 is when everything changes. Well, not quite everything. The Jodcast may have gone twice-monthly, but we remain in roughly the same cheesy for...
NAM 2007
22 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
We're on the road in Preston at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting. Our first special show describes what NAM is and what happened on the first day. ...
April 2007
01 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Aliens have landed at Stonehenge! Actually they haven't, and we aren't serious about horoscopes either, but we nearly had you fooled there. Luckily, t...
March 2007
01 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This month we took our brand new recording kit to Astronomy Now's Astrofest 2007 to talk to some of the exhibitors and visitors. Back at base, Nick ca...
February 2007
01 Feb 2007
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 talk...
January 2007
03 Jan 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Jodcast of 2007. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in astronomy. We talk to Martin Hardca...
December 2006
04 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
The last Jodcast of 2006 has arrived with Dave, Nick and Stuart all presenting via the wonders of the Internet. We start, as always, with a round up o...
November 2006
01 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We have another packed show for you this month. Megan tells us the latest news in astronomy including exciting news about the STEREO mission, the Nobe...
October 2006
03 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of the month ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft plunged into the Moon. We caught up with one of the mission scientists to find out just what the SM...
September 2006
01 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 C...
August 2006
08 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 amat...
July 2006
04 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
We get our very own Ian Morison to tell us about the history of SETI and how it will develop in the future plus we talk to the Chairman of Macclesfiel...
June 2006
01 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we talk to Brother Guy Consolmagno (the Vatican Astronomer) and we find out about searches for planets around other stars using t...
May 2006
05 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we talk to Ralph Spencer and Matt Strong about eVLBI, find out about the Southern Skywatch website and get a review of a Celestro...
April 2006
01 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we find out about gamma ray bursts with Paul O'Brien, take a tour of the Mt. John Observatory in New Zealand, catch up on NASA's ...
March 2006
01 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we have three interviews where we talk to Helen Mason about the SOHO spacecraft, Nick Rattenbury about a newly discovered exoplan...
February 2006
06 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we talk to Gerry Gilmore about the Gaia spacecraft and find out why he says the solar system will be oscillating like a jelly. We...
January 2006
14 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this month's show we go on a sound seeing tour of the Lovell Telescope during the winter solstice. On the way we discover why two pulsars orbiting ...