Astronomy
The Why Factor. The Moon. Audio, 18 minutes
Why has the moon fascinated humans from every culture and for all time?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Cosmology. Audio, 28 minutes
Have astronomers really found gravitational waves from the Big Bang as announced in March?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Islamic Golden Age, Al-Khwarizmi. Audio, 15 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili explores the legacy of mathematician and astronomer al-Khwarizmi.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sarah & Duck. Series 1, Stargazing. Video, 7 minutes
Sarah and Duck are excited about seeing some shooting stars.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Anthropocene. Audio, 28 minutes
Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Transit of Venus. Audio, 30 minutes
Marek Kukula explores the forthcoming transit of Venus across the face of the Sun.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Ptolemy and Ancient Astronomy. Audio, 42 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ptolemy and ancient astronomy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. 29/06/2011. Audio, 30 minutes
How a meteorite that landed on Earth 100 years ago is helping astronomers explore Mars.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A Brief History of Mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss. Audio, 15 minutes
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Carl Sagan. Audio, 30 minutes
Physicist Brian Cox reveals how Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV show changed his life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. The Observatory at Jaipur. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Hubble Space Telescope. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrew Luck-Baker meets the astronauts preparing to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Astronomy and Empire. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. SETI. Audio, 30 minutes
Frontiers looks to the heavens this week, and asks: are we alone?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. End of the Universe Show. Audio, 30 minutes
Exploding stars half way across the universe reveal the future of the cosmos
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir Martin Rees. Audio, 40 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Bluffer's Guide To Science. The Big Bang. Audio, 5 minutes
The Universe is unimaginably vast and incredibly old. So how did it begin?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
