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The Astronomers

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Last broadcast on Thu, 18 Feb 2010, 15:45 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

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Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs.

Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory. For 50 years, astronomers at the Jodrell Bank worked with colleagues around an iconic radio telescope that famously spotted Sputnik. But now most of the Jodrell tribe are leaving their telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside and moving to Manchester. The telescope will survive as it is a listed building, but will the tribe?

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  1. Sun 30 Aug 2009
    14:45
  2. Thu 18 Feb 2010
    15:45

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