Summary
Criminal barristers in England and Wales will take part in an indefinite strike. The BBC's Dom Casciani and barrister Rosalind Burgin explain what's going on.
And at the end of an era... Chris Stark and Scott Mills prepare to leave Radio 1, by reflecting on their decade-long audio bromance.
Today’s episode was made by Tim Walklate with Miranda Slade and Natalie Ktena. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I spent all weekend wondering |
| 0:06.9 | how does a black hole sound and then NASA answered by putting out a tweet. |
| 0:18.7 | So my understanding of it is that's a black hole at the centre of the perseus galaxy cluster. |
| 0:25.4 | Now it's been tweaked because the original noise is something like 57 octaves below middle C. |
| 0:35.0 | So that has been tweaked so that you are hearing it 144 quadrillion times higher than its original |
| 0:42.0 | frequency and it's also been mixed in with some other stuff to make it actually audible to the |
| 0:47.2 | human ear. And it turns out the hole in space no one can hear you scream is not true. |
| 0:52.2 | Because NASA say yes, most of space is a vacuum where no sound waves can travel. |
| 0:57.0 | But in a galaxy cluster you've got so many galaxies and stars and gas. |
| 1:01.8 | It's not really a vacuum at all so there is a sort of medium for the sound to travel through. |
| 1:06.3 | So if you're being chased by a hideous alien through the perseus galaxy cluster and I happen to be |
| 1:11.7 | there, maybe I would hear you. If you'd been turned up 144 quadrillion times or something. |
| 1:18.8 | And after I got told off for not being able to do a basic percentage in the last episode, |
| 1:22.5 | a dread to think what you're going to say about my interpretation of basic physics. |
| 1:26.5 | Anyway, on with stuff that I'm much more comfortable with, the news. In this episode of newscast. |
| 1:30.9 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:33.5 | Nobody said to me this is an event that is against the rules. |
| 1:37.2 | Beyond the back of better. Blah blah blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. |
| 1:41.6 | I've absolutely apologised for using the word scorn. |
| 1:44.6 | Calm down. Enough is enough. |
| 1:47.0 | Only enough it was tractors that I was looking at. |
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