Astronomy, Cosmology

Last Edited: 12-Jul-2011 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
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Extended Series

Cosmic Quest


Date Title Cast Parameters

R7:
26-Apr-1999 to
30-Apr-1999

Naming the Universe

First Names
Realms of the Gods
Pictures in the Sky
Big Planet, Little Planet
The Committee for Naming the Universe

Writer/Presenter: Heather Cooper
Reader: Paul Young
Producers: Nicola White and Caroline Barber

13:50, 3243, M
13:53, 3257, M
13:55, 3263, M
13:55, 3264, M
13:51, 3250, M

23-Jul-2001 to
 20-Aug-2001

Try This at Home

  1. Dark Matter
  2. Supernova
  3. Extra Dimensions
  4. Entanglement
  5. Boomerang

Writer/Presenter: Ben Miller
Producer: Virginia Crompton

13:45, 3223, M
14:03, 3294, M
13:36, 3191, M
13:50, 3243, M
13:56, 3268, M

10-Jul-2002
17-Jul-2002
24-Jul-2002

The Lopsided Universe

  1. Lucifer’s Legacy
  2. Life through the Looking Glass
  3. One in a Billion

Writer/Presenter: Frank Close
Reader: Crawford Logan
Producer: Louise de Alve

27:35, 19404, S
27:40, 19455, S
27:33, 19374, S

27-Jan-2003 to
31-Jan-2003
-

05-Aug-2004 to
26-Aug-2004

A Brief History of the End of Everything

  1. Eternal Universe
  2. Collapsing Universe – The Big Crunch
  3. Cyclical Universe – Bouncing Universe
  4. Expanding Universe – The Big Chill
  5. Exotic Particle (omitted in 2004)

Writer/Presenter: Brother Guy Consolmagno
Producer: John Byrne

14:00, 13128, S
14:00, 13141, S
13:57, 13094, S
13:36, 12754, S
13:40, 9615, S

23-May-2003

Small Dog on Mars

Colin Pillinger
Produced by Martin Redfern

28:01, 19705, S

R7:
27-Aug-2003
03-Sep-2003
10-Sep-2003

The Red Planet

 

27:55, 13094, S
27:50, 13050, S
27:45, 13013, S

25-Dec-2003
01-Jan-2004

Stars in Their Eyes

Egyptian and Mesopotamian Cosmologies
Chinese and Indian Cosmologies

Rajesh Mirchandani
Produced by John Watkins

25:15, 17761, S

10-Mar-2004

The Harvard Computers --
Women in Early Astronomy

Written and presented by Sue Nelson
Readings by Sarah Mennel and Kevin Collins
Produced by Anne McNought

27:51, 26114, S

18-Mar-2004
25-Mar-2004

The Cosmic Ocean

Water a Unique Molecule
Water Elsewhere

Leo Enright
Produced by Jonathan Fyles

28:06, 26355, S
27:55, 26181, S

20-Sep-2004
17-Jan-2005

First Impressions --
Contacting Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Produced by Jeremy Grange

28:42, 26910, S

29-Dec-2004
05-Jan-2005
12-Jan-2005

Worlds Beyond

  1. The Hunt for Planet X
  2. To Catch a Comet
  3. Other Worlds

Heather Couper
Produced by Monice Durani

27:52, 26132, S
28:00, 26267, S
28:03, 26300, S

06-Jan-2005

Running Rings around Saturn
Cassini-Huygens

Richard Hollingham
Produced by Martin Redfern

28:01, 26271, S

09-Mar-2005

Project Prometheus
Nuclear-powered spaceflight

Leo Enright

28:03, 26296, S

16-May-2005

How the Stars Became --
Cosmological Myths around the World

Produced by Kim Normanton and Nigel Atcheson

27:52, 26134, S

16-Jul-2005
17-Feb-2006

Archive Hour – Eyes in the Sky
Spy satellites

Leo Enright
Produce by Tracy Logan

57:01, 53466, S
58:00, 54376, S

20-Jul-2005

The Moon Trees
Trees grown from seeds taken on Apollo 14

Richard Black
Produced by Gabby Fisher

28:06, 26360, S

31-Aug-2005

The Goldilocks Planet
Searching for Earth-like Planets and Life

Writer/Presenter: Brother Guy Consolmagno
Producer: John Byrne

27:55, 26187, S

02-Dec-2005

The Meteorite Hunt
Searching for meteorites in UK gardens

Mathew Genge
Produced by Martin Kurzig

27:58, 26222, S

26-Jul-2006
02-Aug-2006

Humans in Space

Frank Close
Produced by Louise Dyall

28:12, 26440, S
27:46, 26073, S

06-Sep-2006 to
20-Sep-2006

The Cosmic Hunters

  1. Habitable planets?

  2. Cosmic Dawn

  3. Dark Energy

Chris Riley
Produced by Andrew Luck-Baker

27:50, 26104, S
28:00, 26334, S
27:56, 26203, S

23-Nov-2006 to
07-Dec-2006

From Sputnik to Satnav

Chris Boalby

27:56, 26191, S
28:03, 26203, S
27:57, 26212, S

24-Jan-2007

Brother Guy Goes to Washington

Brother Guy Consolmagno
Produced by John Byrne

28:10, 26420, S

20-Jun-2007
27-Jun-2007

Fly Me to the Moon

Jeff Hoffman
Produced by Michelle Martin

28:17, 26516, S
27:48, 26073, S

11-Aug-2007

Archive Hour – Britain’s Space Race

Heather Couper
Produced by Martin Redfern

56:58, 53416, S

04-Sep-2007
30-Jan-2008

Tulips on the Moon

Richard Hollingham
Produced by Fiona Roberts

28:06, 26357, S

29-Oct-2007
20-Jan-2008

Are Horoscopes Rubbish?

Ian Mcmillan
Sarah Jane Hall

28:01, 26272, S

?

The Universe in a Nutshell
Audiobook in 20 segments

Written by Stephen Hawking
Read by Simon Preble

9:07, 4279, m
12:44, 5973, m
10:10, 4770, m
7:45, 3640, m
11:59, 5621, m
11:49, 5545, m
12:21, 5790, m
10:03, 4717, m
8:58, 4210, m
8:17, 3888, m
11:54, 5585, m
10:24, 4878, m
10:22, 4862, m
8:50, 4143, m
9:47, 4588, m
11:29, 5388, m
9:41, 4541, m
10:40, 5002, m
10:11, 4781, m
11:24, 5349, m

30-Apr-2009
07-May-2009

The New Galileos

  1. the James Webb Space Telescope

  2. the Large Binocular Telescope

Andrew Luck-Baker

27:45, 26021, S

13-Jul-2009 to
24-Jul-2009

The Inconstant Moon

  1. The Real Moon
  2. The Invented Moon
  3. The Mad Moon
  4. The Mythic Moon
  5. The Attempted Moon
  6. The Women's Moon
  7. The Earth's Moon
  8. The Magic Moon
  9. The Inconstant Moon
  10. The Mock Moon

Omnibus 1
Omnibus 2

Jeanette Winterson
produced by Kevin Dawson

13:29, 12642, S
13:42, 12858, S
13:40, 12825, S
13:52, 13016, S
13:42, 12856, S
13:47, 12924, S
13:37, 12770, S
13:39, 12798, S
13:52, 13014, S
13:47, 12927, S

56:47, 53246, S
56:42, 56160, S

20-Jul-2009

Give Me the MoonLITE

Richard Hollingham
produced by Martin Redfern
27:51, 26117, S
18-Nov-2009
25-Nov-2009

The Herschel Space Telescope

Jonathon Amos
produced by Gareth Nelson Davies
27:45, 26024, S
27:27, 25747, S
Feb-2002
R7:
06-Jun-2009

Catch a Falling Star
docu on the last meteorite of the millennium which fell on Ireland in 1999

Leo Enright 27:45, 26025, S
04-Feb-2010

2010: Space Odyssey to Europa

Paul Murdin
produced by Emma Harding
27:40, 25939, S
31-Mar-2011

The Biggest Radio on Earth

Lucie Green
produced by Martin Redfern

27:54, 26161, S
11-Jul-2011

Happy Birthday, Neptune

Written and presented by Tracey Logan

27:36, 25837, S
18-Jan-2012

Frankenstein's Moon

Adam Rutherford
produced by Andrew Luck-Baker

27:47, 26002, S