Carolin Crawford
Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Member of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
20 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Martin Rees, Monica Grady, Andrew Coates, Paul Murdin
Covers topics in categories such as:
Mercury
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the smallest planet in our solar system, what the Mariner 10 and Messenger missions have revealed and the hopes for the new BepiColombo mission.
02 May 2024
Also featuring: Emma Bunce, David Rothery
Jupiter
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.
29 June 2023
Also featuring: Michele Dougherty, Leigh Fletcher
The Death of Stars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how so much in the Universe, and much of our understanding of it, depends on changes in stars as they die after millions or billions of stable years
9 June 2022
Also featuring: Martin Rees, Mark Sullivan
William and Caroline Herschel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering brother and sister who, between them, discovered Uranus, comets, double stars and infrared light at the end of the 18th century.
11 November 2021
Also featuring: Monica Grady, Jim Bennett
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the progress in our understanding of eclipses from the ancient world onwards and how their predictability illuminates historical records and myths.
31 December 2020
Also featuring: Frank Close, Lucie Green
Venus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Earth's neighbouring planet, once thought very similar but now known to be extremely volcanic with a surface temperature of 450C.
27 December 2018
Also featuring: Colin Wilson, Andrew Coates
The Kuiper belt
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Kuiper Belt region, home to Pluto and countless remnants from the beginnings of our solar system.
2 March 2017
Also featuring: Monica Grady, Stephen Lowry
Saturn
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Saturn, the most distant planet easily visible to the human eye, with over 60 moons and, with its rings, one of the most striking sights in space.
14 January 2016
Also featuring: Michele Dougherty, Andrew Coates
Dark matter
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance that is believed to make up most of the universe.
12 March 2015
Also featuring: Gresham Professor of Astronomy Carlos Frenk, Anne Green
The Sun
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
10 July 2014
Also featuring: Yvonne Elsworth, Louise Harra
Exoplanets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss exoplanets, planets detected outside our solar system.
3 October 2013
Also featuring: Don Pollacco, Suzanne Aigrain
Cosmic rays
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays, the mysterious high-energy particles that constantly bombard Earth.
16 May 2013
Also featuring: Alan Watson, Tim Greenshaw
The Moon
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science and mythology of the moon. Man may have landed on the moon, but our 'twin planet' in many ways still remains a mystery.
3 November 2011
Also featuring: Paul Murdin, Ian Crawford
The Age of the Universe
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss a question which has obsessed cosmologists for millennia: how old is the Universe?
3 March 2011
Also featuring: Martin Rees, Carlos Frenk
The Cool Universe
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
6 May 2010
Also featuring: Paul Murdin, Michael Rowan-Robinson
Gravitational Waves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gravitational Waves, mysterious phenomena that ripple the fabric of space-time.
17 May 2007
Also featuring: Jim Al-Khalili, Sheila Rowan
Galaxies
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the galaxies; spread out across the void of space like spun sugar, but harbouring in their centres super-massive black holes.
29 June 2006
Also featuring: John Gribbin, Robert Kennicutt
Asteroids
Melvyn Bragg discusses asteroids, once regarded as “the vermin of the solar system” but now viewed as key to our understanding of the beginning of time.
3 November 2005
Also featuring: Monica Grady, John Zarnecki
Dark Energy
Melvyn Bragg discusses the recently discovered, and mysteriously named, 'dark energy' which may make up 70% of the universe.
17 March 2005
Also featuring: Martin Rees, Roger Penrose
The Planets
Melvyn Bragg discusses our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems. What causes them to form and what is the likelihood of there being another with properties similar to Earth’s?
27 May 2004
Also featuring: Paul Murdin, Hugh Jones