Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
9 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Carolin Crawford, Roger Penrose
Covers topics in categories such as:
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: Carolin Crawford, Mark Sullivan
Relativity
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity, a hypothetical framework that transformed our understanding of the universe.
6 June 2013
Also featuring: Ruth Gregory, Roger Penrose
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: Carolin Crawford, Carlos Frenk
The Multiverse
Melvyn Bragg and guests will be leaving the studio, the planet and indeed, the universe to take a tour of the Multiverse
21 February 2008
Also featuring: Fay Dowker, Bernard Carr
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: Carolin Crawford, Roger Penrose
The Universe's Shape
Melvyn Bragg discusses shape, size and topology of the universe and examines theories about its expansion. If it is already infinite, how can it be getting any bigger? And is there really only one?
7 February 2002
Also featuring: Julian Barbour, Janna Levin
Black Holes
Melvyn Bragg discusses Black Holes, the dead collapsed ghosts of massive stars.
12 April 2001
Also featuring: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Martin Ward
Grand Unified Theory
Melvyn Bragg examines 20th century’s physics’ search for one theory that can explain the behaviour of the smallest particle as well as the movements of the largest planets in the Universe.
24 February 2000
Also featuring: Brian Greene
The Universe's Origins
Melvyn Bragg examines the way thinking about the origins of the universe changed in the 20th century. Are we any closer to knowing whether other worlds exist and how our planet came into being?
20 May 1999
Also featuring: Paul Davies