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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself. |
| 0:03.7 | My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with a leading journalist, experienced |
| 0:12.2 | pundits and the biggest sport stars. |
| 0:14.3 | Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players' |
| 0:18.5 | mouths. |
| 0:19.5 | But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sport world. |
| 0:25.0 | What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to |
| 0:28.8 | dedicated sports fans across the UK. |
| 0:31.2 | So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello, this is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science, |
| 0:44.9 | first broadcast on Thursday 14th July 2022. |
| 0:49.6 | It's 40 years this month since the world agreed a moratorium on commercial whale hunting. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll look back with one of the pioneers of the global environmental movement to save the whale. |
| 1:02.9 | But first, unless you've been living on Mars, you won't have missed this week's huge event in |
| 1:09.4 | astronomy. The James Webb Space Telescope sent its first images back to Earth and what a marvellous |
| 1:16.7 | set of picks they are. One of the leading scientists on the project is Stephanie Millam, |
| 1:21.9 | who joins me from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the US. |
| 1:26.4 | I wonder what was the atmosphere like there as they waited for those first images? |
| 1:31.6 | This has been a long, arduous journey. The whole project all the way up to launch and the |
| 1:38.0 | last six months of commissioning the telescope. Seeing those first images was absolutely mind-blowing. |
| 1:45.1 | We expected the telescope was really going to deliver something amazing and we got exactly what |
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