Hello, it's Howard Hughes in London, on a very sad day.

Today we learn that Sir Patrick Moore, a man known to pretty much everybody in the United

Kingdom and many people around the world, as a fabulous broadcaster and astronomer, has

died at the age of 89 at his home in Selze and Sussex, the place that he loved.

Over the years, not only for the unexplained but for many other radio shows and news

bulletins, I spoke with him and interviewed him many, many times and I came to know him

as a very warm, highly interesting, amusing and quintessentially British individual.

I am very saddened that this man has left us, but he leaves us with a lot of knowledge

and a lot of understanding.

When America had the Great Walter Cronkite to guide it through the Apollo Moon missions,

we had Sir Patrick Moore on television here and I will always remember being glued to

the television screen during my school holidays as a little boy, watching and listening.

He sparked my interest in space and I will always be grateful to him.

I thought on this occasion I would just let you hear an interview that I did with him,

one of a number that I did with him, in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of his iconic

British television show The Sky at Night.

Here's that interview.

It hasn't changed very much, so I don't think it's a shame to shape and format as it was

50 years ago.

Of course, the whole of science is different, does it get weird again before the space

age started?

Something like quasars, pulsars, black, or whatever?

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