The Jodcast
The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast created by students and staff from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. The episodes include the latest astronomy news, interviews with astronomers, stargazing information, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 323
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
July 2007 Extra
Dave and Nick are here for the mid-July show. We present part two of our Harry Potter-style intros (The Chamber of Anti-Science) with a special cameo appearance from The Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait. N…
00:42:45 |
Sat 21 Jul 2007
July 2007
Despite rumours that Baron Deathmortes is at large, we put on our rather damp Jodcast invisibility cloak and sneaked out to the astronomy tower to record this month's Jodcast. We find out about one o…
00:53:53 |
Sun 01 Jul 2007
June 2007 Extra
Nick, Dave and Stuart are all in the same room to record this mid-month Jodcast. We talk to Benoit Famaey about possible corrections to Newton's famous laws of gravitation, we kick-off a new 60-secon…
00:30:56 |
Fri 15 Jun 2007
June 2007
Tick, tick, tick. Forty years on from the first observations of pulsating neutron stars we talk to the discoverer of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She tells us about her PhD and how an 'annoying bit…
Thu 31 May 2007
May 2007 Extra
This is the first of our new mid-month shows. First we get some breaking news from the Hubble Space Telescope, we listen to the second half of our interview with Carole Mundell about active galactic …
00:29:48 |
Tue 15 May 2007
May 2007
May 2007 is when everything changes. Well, not quite everything. The Jodcast may have gone twice-monthly, but we remain in roughly the same cheesy format as before. This month we've gone internationa…
Tue 01 May 2007
NAM 2007
We're on the road in Preston at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting. Our first special show describes what NAM is and what happened on the first day. In our second show we catch up with Chris Wareing…
Sun 22 Apr 2007
April 2007
Aliens have landed at Stonehenge! Actually they haven't, and we aren't serious about horoscopes either, but we nearly had you fooled there. Luckily, the rest of our April show has real astronomy in i…
Sun 01 Apr 2007
March 2007
This month we took our brand new recording kit to Astronomy Now's Astrofest 2007 to talk to some of the exhibitors and visitors. Back at base, Nick catches up with Ciska Markwick-Kemper to talk about…
Thu 01 Mar 2007
February 2007
This month we look back to the past, at the present and into the future; you'd almost think we stole the plot from A Christmas Carol. Ian Morison talks to Sir Bernard Lovell about the origins of Jodr…
Thu 01 Feb 2007
January 2007
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Jodcast of 2007. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in astronomy. We talk to Martin Hardcastle about active galactic nuclei and radio galax…
Wed 03 Jan 2007
December 2006
The last Jodcast of 2006 has arrived with Dave, Nick and Stuart all presenting via the wonders of the Internet. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in astronomy which can now be do…
Mon 04 Dec 2006
November 2006
We have another packed show for you this month. Megan tells us the latest news in astronomy including exciting news about the STEREO mission, the Nobel Prize for physics 2006, ice on the Moon, extras…
Wed 01 Nov 2006
October 2006
At the start of the month ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft plunged into the Moon. We caught up with one of the mission scientists to find out just what the SMART-1 mission's aims were and why it crashed. We …
Tue 03 Oct 2006
September 2006
This month, after all the excitement of the IAU General Assembly planet definition, we stay a bit closer to home and have a tour of the Jodrell Bank Control Room. We find out about the Lovell Telesco…
Fri 01 Sep 2006
August 2006
This month's show is all about stars. We talk to Dr Tim O'Brien about a recurrent nova in the constellation of Ophiuchus and Johanna Ashwell - an amateur astronomer and PhD student - tells us about a…
Tue 08 Aug 2006
July 2006
We get our very own Ian Morison to tell us about the history of SETI and how it will develop in the future plus we talk to the Chairman of Macclesfield Astronomical Society about his interest in astr…
00:57:29 |
Tue 04 Jul 2006
June 2006
In this month's show we talk to Brother Guy Consolmagno (the Vatican Astronomer) and we find out about searches for planets around other stars using telescopes built with parts from eBay. We also try…
Thu 01 Jun 2006
May 2006
In this month's show we talk to Ralph Spencer and Matt Strong about eVLBI, find out about the Southern Skywatch website and get a review of a Celestron NexStar 130SLT telescope (sub GBP300/$550) by I…
Fri 05 May 2006
April 2006
In this month's show we find out about gamma ray bursts with Paul O'Brien, take a tour of the Mt. John Observatory in New Zealand, catch up on NASA's Stardust mission and discover what goes on at the…
Sat 01 Apr 2006
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