Lifechangers: Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In Lifechangers, Kevin Fong talks to people about their lives in science.

Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, Neil deGrasse Tyson is well known in the US since he presented the TV series Cosmos: a spacetime odyssey. He talks to Kevin Fong about growing up in Brooklyn, becoming obsessed with the night sky and how he became a broadcaster and writer.

Image: Neil deGrasse Tyson, © Cindy Ord/Getty Images for FOX

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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Thank you for
1:01.0	downloading from the BBC.
1:03.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use,
1:07.0	go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts.
1:10.0	Plenty of things you can do as a kid that you just like. You can like candy.
1:16.2	All right, doesn't mean you want to be a candy manufacturer, but I like the universe and
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