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radio four. Hello, welcome to a good read where my guest today are the music critic Neil McCormick

and Chris Lintott, astronomer at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, Chris runs the Zooniverse, a series of projects including How do Galaxy's form

and Search for Exploding Stars that invite the public to participate in science.

Chris also co-presents the BBC's Sky at Night, to which he's been contributing since the year

2000, and is the co-author, along with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist Brian May of Bang,

a history of the universe that's been translated into 13 languages, including apparently American.

Chris, why into American?

Too many mentions of cricket and Doctor Who. That's what we were told.

Well, it's good to have you on the programme and good too to have you here, Neil McCormick.

Neil is the Telegraph's chief music critic and a regular music pundit on TV and radio.

Some way from his 1978 beginnings when as a 17-year-old punk rock art school dropout,

he started working for Hot Press magazine in Dublin.

Neil has sung in a succession of obscure bands, including Frankie Corps and The Undertakers, and his musical

misadventures are detailed in his 2003 memoir, I Was Bono's Doppelganger, later filmed as

Killing Bono. Neil is currently working on his magnum opus,

how not to succeed in the music business,

and he still occasionally makes music under the recording alias,

The Ghost Who Walks, and with his live band, Groovy Dad.

Neil, your choice of a good read.

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