Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Michael Berkeley's guest is the space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the co-presenter of The Sky at Night on 91热爆 TV, and a passionate science communicator.
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock readily admits that her childhood television viewing played a vital role in her eventual choice of career: she loved Star Trek and The Clangers - the animated children鈥檚 show featuring little whistling mice living on a moon-like planet. Along with coverage of the Apollo missions, they helped to inspire a journey which led her to become one of the UK鈥檚 leading space experts. She鈥檚 also a passionate science communicator, and a familiar face on our screens, as co-presenter of The Sky at Night.
Maggie is an authority on telescopes and space imaging, and was part of the James Webb Space Telescope team, launched by NASA in 2021. This telescope used ground-breaking technology to produce strikingly clear pictures of stars we鈥檝e never seen before, changing how we understand the universe.
Her musical passions include works by Bach, Dvorak and Purcell, as well as music inspired by the moon and by distant planets.
Presenter Michael Berkeley
Producer Clare Walker
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Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)
Performer: Pascal Rog茅.- Fur Elise, Piano Music by Beethoven, Chopin, etc.: Ashkenezy etc..
- Decca.
- 12.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
St John Passion Pt 2: Da fuhreten sie Jesum von Caiaphas (Recitative + Chorus)
Performer: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Christian Immler. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Singer: Yusuke Watanabe. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan.- JS Bach: St John Passion Bacxh Collegium Japan.
- BIS.
- 2.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 "From the New World" (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.- Dvo艡谩k:Symphony No. 9, From the New world - Sibelius: Finlandia.
- Signum Classics.
- 2.
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Henry Purcell
When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido & Aeneas)
Music Arranger: William Orbit. Music Arranger: Rico Conning. Singer: Andreas Scholl.- Pieces In A Modern Style Vol.2Diditgal exclusive with bonus track.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 15.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets, Op.32; Neptune, the Mystic
Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Choir: 91热爆 Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Andrew Davis.- Holst: The Planets Op.32; Egdon Heath Op.47.
- TELDEC.
- 7.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibtion: Bydlo 'The Ox Cart'
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain.
- DG.
- 12.
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George Gershwin
An American in Paris- piano roll
Performer: George Gershwin.- Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls.
- Nonesuch.
- 12.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major
Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
- Naive.
- 14 & 15.
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