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Listening to Space

Date released

18 Nov 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1798

NoS ID

025331

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Listening to Space. DESCRIPTION: Within a natural crater, in Puerto Rico, ringed by mountain peaks is the site for the largest radar and radio telescope of its kind in the world....

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Sky at Night Series, The (2004)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

Monthly astronomy programmes from the BBC SKY AT NIGHT series, presented by Patrick Moore, are available for free viewing online. The archive contains programmes broadcast since December 2001 and new...

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Francis Graham Smith on new telescope funding (1988)

Genre

Interview

Astronomer Royal, Sir Francis Graham Smith gives details of a new multi-million pund radio telescope which will be built by Manchester University following a grant. He describes the kind of things it may...

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Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews: Patrick Moore; Clare Francis. Living in the 17th Century Exhibition - nd [1985]

Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACKS 1-3 PATRICK MOORE. Describes Saturn as seen through...

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Inventions that changed the world (1985)

A series aimed at the under-16s which takes a lighthearted look at the history of invention. Amongst the subject covered are the use of metals and discovery of bronze, the inventions of modern printing, the...

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Radio Telescope

Date released

24 Oct 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

304

NoS ID

120963

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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Ears to See Through

Date released

8 Jun 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1827

NoS ID

025564

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ears to See Through. DESCRIPTION: Sir Bernard Lovell, master-mind behind the Jodrell Bank radio telescope, built in 1957, has just introduced the Mark Two Telescope, which has cost...

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New Radio Telescope

Date released

20 Nov 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2268

NoS ID

029652

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Radio Telescope - Colour. DESCRIPTION: The world’s largest radio telescope near Cambridge, handed over to Sir Martin Ryle, Astronomer Royal. SHOTLIST: GV radio telescope in...

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A Big Job

Date released

22 Aug 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1629

NoS ID

023738

Story no

2 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Big Job. DESCRIPTION: Britain’s giant radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is undergoing a major overhaul. The telescope itself has done many a big job, tracking satellites, but...

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To Call Space Soon

Date released

6 Feb 1966

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

66/11

NoS ID

111945

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

A new British radio telescope nears completion and will extend the frontiers of the science of radio astronomy.

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