Latest Outer hebrides Podcast Episodes

Juliana Capes

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - February 04, 2022 10:43 - 43 minutes
What does a sunset mean to you? Sunset Reports, screening as part of the 2022 Hebridean Dark Skies Festival's opening night on Friday 11 February, is a 52-minute film in which artist Juliana Capes describes an entire sunset, moment by moment. In episode eight of our podcast, Juliana ex...

Roberto Trotta and Laura Cameron-Lewis

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - January 21, 2022 11:03 - 1 hour
Is it possible to explain the mysteries of the Universe using only the 1000 most commonly used words in English? Or Gaelic? The Edge of the Sky | Oir Nan Speur is a unique new theatre show, adapted from a book in which award-winning science communicator Roberto Trotta tries to explain ...

Catherine Heymans and Joe Zuntz

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - January 07, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes
Catherine Heymans is Scotland's Astronomer Royal and a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. Joe Zuntz is a Reader in Astrophysics at the University Of Edinburgh. Together they perform a comedy show called The Universe: Does Anything Matter?, which is coming to the H...

Bethany Rigby

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - February 12, 2021 18:58 - 38 minutes
The Outer Hebrides’ relationship with astronomy, Bethany Rigby says, “embodies humanity’s changing view of our place within the universe”. The designer, researcher and writer, above, is now the creator of Outer Hebrides // Outer Space, a new research project that explores our islands’ a...

Sheona Urquhart

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - February 05, 2021 14:32 - 52 minutes
An astrophysicist who has lived and worked all over the world, Sheona Urquhart spent much of her childhood in the north of Scotland gazing at the stars, and is as fascinated by myths and legends, from the Hebrides to Hawaii, as she is by Extragalactic Astrophysics, the subject of her PH...

Renzo Spiteri

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - January 29, 2021 14:58 - 48 minutes
A musician, composer and sound artist, Renzo Spiteri has performed at festivals across the world, working between England and Malta. He is now based in Shetland, whose landscape inspired his latest project, Stillness, described as “an immersive live performance that takes audiences on a...

Kari Leibowitz

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - January 22, 2021 10:01 - 51 minutes
How come one of the coldest, darkest places in the world has relatively low rates of wintertime depression? Health psychologist Kari Leibowitz spent a year investigating this as a Fulbright Scholar in Tromsø, Norway, which is so far north that it experiences a “Polar Night,” the time fr...

Karine Polwart

Hebridean Dark Skies Festival podcast - January 15, 2021 22:13 - 54 minutes
Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart has long been fascinated by astronomy. At the 2020 Hebridean Dark Skies Festival she performed The Only Light Was Stars, a ‘work in progress’ version of a new show inspired by supernovas, in front of an audience for the first time. One year on, ...