" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Dr Stuart Clark is one of the UK's most widely read astronomy journalists. A former editor of Astronomy Now, He has a PhD in astrophysics and until 2001 was director of public astronomy education at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2001 the Independent ranked him alongside Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, as one of the ‘stars' of British astrophysics teaching. A regular contributor to such magazines as New Scientist and BBC Focus, he is the author of several books, including Galaxy. But it was his first work of narrative nonfiction, The Sun Kings, that established him as a popular science writer par excellence. Stuart's latest book is The Big Questions: The Universe.
This show was guest hosted by Marcus Chown.
First broadcast on 19th February 2010.
On the 1st October 2010 Stuart Guest hosted a show with Michael Brooks.