Ep. 377 - Professor Chris Lintott
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott is the primary presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, having previously been co-presenter with Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. He co-authored Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe and The Cosmic Tourist with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May. He has recently been appointed the 39th Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College in London which was founded in 1597. At the same time Chris is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at New College. Chris Lintott is the co-founder of zooniverse.org, the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research and which was the topic of his first book, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’. His latest book, Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens, is a tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life .
Chris Lintott is guest number 377 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | An Apple original film, Blitz. |
| 0:02.0 | Please, Mom. Don't set him me away. |
| 0:04.0 | It's only until all this is over. |
| 0:06.0 | Steve McQueen's Blitz is a triumph. |
| 0:09.0 | Your son did not arrive at his destination. |
| 0:11.0 | You were meant to be looking after him. Where's my boy? |
| 0:14.0 | Critics Rade. |
| 0:16.0 | Sershya Ronan is superb. |
| 0:18.0 | I just want to go home. |
| 0:19.0 | A monumental achievement in British cinema. I'll be back when I sound my boy. |
| 0:23.6 | A masterpiece. Blitz. Streaming on Apple TV Plus 22nd of November. Subscription required. |
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