Live from The Space Shed
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Live from The Space Shed is our new podcast hosted by Director of Human Spaceflight Jon Spooner and Mini Jon - UNSA’s first astronaut. They’ve been touring festivals interviewing some super cool space and science people and we’ve recorded their conversations so we can share them with you.Subscribe for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like them, please let us know on social media and help spread the word.Have fun! We hope you enjoy Season 1 of Live from The Space Shed!
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Episodes
...with Al Worden
September 30, 2020 08:53 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBFor this episode we were at New Scientist Live 2019 as their “performance stage”, hosting workshops, talks and interviews with some of the UK’s leading scientists and researchers. One of the (many) highlights was hosting an interview and Q&A with astronaut Al Worden who piloted the Apollo 15 command module to The Moon in 1971. We’re releasing this episode for International Podcast Day to celebrate Al’s life after he passed away earlier this year. 2020 really hasn’t pulled any punches, eh? ...
...with Maddie Moate
December 06, 2019 20:37 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBFor this episode we were on campus at the University of Warwick’s Family Day for the British Science Festival with Maddie Moate - a YouTube filmmaker, BAFTA winning presenter and the host of the BAFTA nominated CBeebies series “Do You Know?”, BBC Earth’s “Earth Unplugged”and CNBC’s technology series “The Cloud Challenge”. Maddie and Jon know each other from the CBeebies Christmas Show that Jon directs and in this episode we chat about: the CBeebies Christmas show how Maddie started out on...
...with Professor Jacqueline McGlade
November 20, 2019 11:44 - 34 minutes - 32 MBJacqueline is currently a professor at Gresham College, University College London and the Maasai Mara University in Kenya where she also lives having married a Maasai chief. Previously chief scientist of the United Nations environment programme and executive director of the European Environment Agency, Jacqueline is passionate about community science and natural prosperity, open data and earth observation. She is one of the most extraordinary humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. In ...
...with Dr Louisa Ashley
October 30, 2019 15:47 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBFor this episode we’re back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with poet, lawyer, international human rights activist and founding member of Unlimited Theatre Dr Louisa Ashley. In this episode Louisa and Jon chat about: Louisa’s ‘career journey’ from experimental theatre maker to Head of Law at Leeds Beckett University chocolate’s relationship to climate change “Ecofeminism” and what it is poetry and conflict resolution how art can help us deal with the emotional responses t...
...with Harpreet Kaur Paul
October 16, 2019 17:12 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBFor this episode we were on campus at the University of Warwick as part of the British Science Festival with lawyer and climate justice activist Harpreet Kaur Paul. In this episode Harpreet and Jon chat about: what “climate justice” is what the real effects of climate change are right now how human rights laws can help with fighting climate change why direct action (protest) is important what can we best do as individuals? and answers questions including: should my school start ...
...with Dr Alice Bell
October 01, 2019 15:41 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBFor this episode we were in The Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with Dr Alice Bell - a climate activist and historian and the co-director of climate charity 10:10 (recently rebranded as Possible). In this episode Alice and Jon chat about: the best words to describe the climate crisis/breakdown/emergency why keeping global heating to 1.5degrees is so important why it’s good to talk about how scary this all is what we can all do to combat climate change why individual (as well a...
...with Chaitanya Kumar
September 17, 2019 12:31 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBFor this episode we were in London at the Great Exhibition Road Festival with Chaitanya Kumar - a climate activist and senior policy advisor for the Green Alliance and previously with 350.org - on one of the hottest days of 2019. In this episode Chaitanya explains: why climate change is such a huge problem what the UK is doing to combat climate change what we as a society (rather than individuals) need to do to fight climate change what a positive (rather than ‘doom and gloom’) futu...
...with Rupert Read + Extinction Rebellion
September 04, 2019 07:46 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBFor this episode we're back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with Rupert Read representing for Extinction Rebellion. Rupert is an Associated Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, an author, a blogger, and – most passionately – a climate and environmental campaigner. Throughout 2019 he has frequently been a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and is a member of their political liaison team, meeting with senior politicians from across the political spectrum. He ...
...with Alex Amon
August 20, 2019 07:15 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBFor this episode we were outside the Great North Museum: Hancock as part of the Great Exhibition of the North with cosmologist and dark matter explorer Dr Alex Amon. At the time, Alex was just completing her PhD at the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh and has recently been awarded the prestigious Royal Astronomical Society thesis prize. She is super cool. In this episode Alex explains: what dark energy and dark matter are and how you find it what “gravitational lensing” is how spa...
...with Abbie Hutty
August 05, 2019 23:01 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBFor this episode we’re back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with space engineer Abbie Hutty. For the last seven years she has been working as the lead structures engineer on the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover that is scheduled for launch to the red planet in 2020. Also, Jon makes an utter hash of trying to launch the Space Shed. Bear with him! In this episode Abbie and UNSA’s Director of Human Spaceflight Jon Spooner talk about how she became a space engineer why she’s...
...with Jon Butterworth
July 16, 2019 15:46 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBFor this episode we’re in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with particle physicist Professor Jon Butterworth. Jon works on the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment at CERN. Not sure what any of those things are? No problem! Jon describes them and his work brilliantly. In this episode Jon (Butterworth) and UNSA’s Director of Human Spaceflight (other) Jon Spooner talk about what particle physics even is why it is worth dedicating your life to physics Jon B’s 5 billion year ol...
...with Jen Gupta
July 08, 2019 23:05 - 29 minutes - 41 MBFor this episode we’re back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with astrophysicist and science communicator Jen Gupta. Based in the super cooly named Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/Ogden Physics Outreach and Public Engagement Manager, Jen is also one of the hosts of the BBC Tomorrow’s World Live series, one of the creators and hosts of the Seldom Sirius astronomy podcast and has also been known to perform comedy sets whe...
...with Kevin Fong
June 25, 2019 00:56 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBThis was our first event in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival 2018 with medical and space doctor Kevin Fong. As well as holding a day job as a flying A&E doctor, Kevin also works regularly with NASA, makes documentaries and podcasts about space for the BBC and in 2009 nearly (actually) became an astronaut. Kevin and UNSA’s Director of Human Spaceflight Jon Spooner talk about: How Kevin became a Space Doctor Flying in microgravity on The Vomit Comet How Kevin nearly (actually) be...
Live from The Space Shed Trailer
June 07, 2019 18:09 - 3 minutes - 4.29 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.