11th December 2022 – Live on Al Jazeera English talking about Orion and Artemis, 9.20pm.
11th December 2022 – Live on BBC World News TV (again!) talking about the landing of the Orion capsule, 5.45pm.
11th December 2022 – Live on BBC TV News talking about Artemis, today’s landing, and Apollo 17, 12.20am.
11th December 2022 – Live on BBC World News TV talking about Artemis, today’s landing, and Apollo 17, 12.10pm.
11th December 2022 – Live on BBC World Service radio talking about Artemis, today’s landing, and Apollo 17, 8.15am.
9th December 2022 – Pre-record (10pm) for BBC Radio 5 Live talking about Artemis.
9th December 2022 – Live on BBC CWR talking with Vic about Mars and what else you can see in the night sky at the moment, 11.40am.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about Artemis and Orion, 1654.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire talking about Artemis and Orion, 1645.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Wiltshire talking about Artemis and Orion, 1639.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Three Counties talking about Artemis and Orion, 1632.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester talking about Artemis and Orion, 1623.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Derby talking about Artemis and Orion, 1616.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Solent talking about Artemis and Orion, 1610.
22nd November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Cumbria talking about Artemis and Orion, 1604.
21st November 2022 – Live on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Colin Murray about Artemis 1 reaching the Moon earlier in the day.
21st November 2022 – Live on BBC TV News talking about the orbit insertion burn of Artemis 1 as it happened!
16th November 2022 – Spoke to Tony Livesey on BBC Radio 5 Live Drive about the launch of Artemis and the granting of a launch licence to Spaceport Cornwall (here’s the episode, skip to 1h42m).
16th November 2022 – Spoke to Nish on BBC Radio Lancashire about the launch of Artemis earlier this morning (here’s the episode).
21st October 2022 – Comments in an article in the Daily Express about JWST’s new view of the so-called “pillars of creation”. Here’s the article. (The comments were provided some time ago – I’m not RAS VP any more.)
27th September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Colin Murray (again!) about the results of the DART impact with Dimorphos (here’s the episode, skip to 1h38m).
27th September 2022 – Comments on Artemis to the The Daily Mail.
26th September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Colin Murray about the upcoming DART impact with Dimorphos (here’s the episode, skip to 1h48m).
26th September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Wales talking to Gareth Lewis on Drive about the upcoming DART impact with Dimorphos (here’s the episode, skip to 32m).
20th September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Tony Livesey about the recording of a meteorite impacting Mars from NASA’s InSight mission (here’s the episode, skip to 55m).
4th September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Eleanor Oldroyd and Greg McKenzie (at 7.20am!) about the aborted Artemis-1 launch attempt (here’s the episode, skip to 25m).
3rd September 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Lancashire talking to Shigufta Khan live on air about the upcoming Artemis-1 launch. (here’s the episode, skip to 2h50m).
1st September 2022 – Expert comment for the Lancashire Evening Post about a mystery fireball photographed over Preston (here’s the article). Spoiler alert: it’s not aliens.
1st August 2022 – Live on BBC Radio Lancashire talking to Mike Stevens about the re-entry of the Chinese Long March rocket body over the weekend (here’s the episode, skip to 3h21m).
12th July 2022 – Live on BBC 5Live talking to Naga Munchetty about the JWST image, 12.45pm (here’s the episode, skip to the 1h43m in).
12th July 2022 – Live on BBC News Channel talking to Joanna Gosling about the first JWST image released overnight, 10.50am (here’s the image, and here’s the episode).
(Took a little break from media appearances for personal reasons.)
1st April 2022 – Spoke to Steven Crilley on FM4 Radio (Vienna) about the discovery of a star at z~6.
30th March 2022 – spoke to Evan Davis on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme about the discovery of a star at redshift 6.2 (here’s the Nature paper, and here’s the episode scroll to the last five minutes).
8th February 2022 – spoke to a journalist from the Daily Mail about the breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage over Mexico.