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  1. A Royal Astronomer and the Astronomer Royal

    Date released
    27 Jul 1925
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    726-2
    NoS ID
    130094
    Story no
    4 / 5

    King George V and Queen Mary visit the Greenwich Observatory to mark the 250th anniversary of its founding.

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  2. Aliens: The Big Think (2016)

    Subject
    Natural history; Space science

    Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and scientists take up the search for extra-terrestrials, exploring the theory that we should be searching for machines, not organic life, beyond the solar system. [59 minutes]

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  3. 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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  4. Radio interviews with leading scientists

    Date
    27 Jun 2016, 15:07
    Author
    Cathy Grant
    Post Type
    Post

    The Life Scientific, a new series of 30-minute programmes, begins this morning on Radio 4 at 9.00, repeated in the evening at 9.30. Each week Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at Surrey University, will...

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  5. 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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  6. Tim Makes His Debut

    Date released
    27 Jul 1936
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    565
    NoS ID
    034632
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Time at your fingertips. Astronomer Royal opens new telephone talking clock service at Holborn Exchange.

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  7. The Eclipse

    Date released
    11 Apr 1921
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    762
    NoS ID
    081868
    Story no
    5 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    By courtesy of the Astronomer Royal, the Pathe Gazette is able to show how the great eclipse was recorded. Free distribution of millions of pieces of film enabled everybody to be "Eclipse Gazers".

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  8. Recording the Eclipse

    Date released
    23 Jun 1927
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1409; Super Issue No.: 27/50
    NoS ID
    086053
    Story no
    4 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Astronomer Royal and assistants all ready at "the Eclipse Camp" in the centre of the "Band of Totality".

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  9. Yorkshire. Passing Shadows

    Date released
    30 Jun 1927
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    827-1
    NoS ID
    131358
    Story no
    2 / 5

    [SUBTITLE]: "The patient labours of the Royal Observatory Camp at Giggleswick rewarded by a perfect view of the total eclipse." Two astronomers at work on some apparatus. Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer...

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  10. London’s New Observatory

    Date released
    10 Oct 1929
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1649; Super Issue No.: 29/81
    NoS ID
    087916
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Sir Frank Dyson - Astronomer Royal - opens University of London’s "new eye upon the stars".

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