Audio work

One of the many things I do in my spare time is contribute to podcasts and record audio books. This started with the Jodcast in 2005/6, extended to Librivox in 2009 and others in 2010. Here you will find a summary of my recordings to date.

Jodcast | Librivox | Other podcasts

Jodcast

The Jodcast is an astronomy podcast by a bunch of astronomers based (mainly) at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK. Since the Jodcast began in January 2006, I have researched and produced the news section for the first show of each month. From time to time I have also conducted the odd interview, and recently I have been joining in as a presenter more frequently.

Librivox

In August 2009 I began recording audio books for Librivox, a volunteer project to create audio recordings of public domain texts (mainly from Project Gutenberg). Below is a list of my contributions with links to the audio. As this page might not always be updated straight away, you can find an up to date list on my Librivox catalogue page.

Danger In Deep Space by Carey Rockwell: Astro (dramatic work). Not yet catalogued.

Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge: Lecture IV - Galileo and the invention of the telescope (audio 39MB)
Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge: Lecture V - Galileo and the Inquisition (audio 40MB)

Short ghost and horror collection 007: The Signal-man by Charles Dickens (audio 27.7MB)

Short Sci-fi collection 32: Vanishing Point by C. C. Beck (audio 9.0MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 30: The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley (audio 13.7MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 28: Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley (audio 36.8MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 27: Keep Out by Frederic Brown (audio 7.8MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 26: The End of Time by Wallace West (audio 52.5MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 25: No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco (audio 35.6MB)
Short Sci-fi collection 24: The Defenders by Philip K. Dick (audio 47.4MB)

Other podcasts

From time to time I record other random things and contribute to other podcasts, and here they are.

Starship Sofa

Explained in 60 seconds: White hole in StarShipSofa No. 174
Explained in 60 seconds: Tachyon in StarShipSofa No. 171
Explained in 60 seconds: Light speed in Aural Delights No. 167
Explained in 60 seconds: Quasar in Aural Delights No. 137
Explained in 60 seconds: Black Hole in Aural Delights No. 123
Explained in 60 seconds: Red Dwarf in Aural Delights No. 118

365 Days of Astronomy

July 6th 2011: Impact (another Doctor Who short story)
June 2nd 2010: The Journey of Astronomy, Prof Peter Quinn (editor)
May 13th 2010: The Square Kilometre Array (interviewer and co-editor)
March 31st 2010: Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral
January 21st 2010: Ilgarijiri - Aboriginal art meets modern astronomy
August 1st 2009: contribution to "How I got into astronomy" by Robert Simpson

Astronomy.FM

Guest on the Event Horizon with Marty Kunz, 8th January 2011
Guest on a two-hour First Light special, 7th November 2010, a round table discussion on the Shuttle, the future of manned space exploration, comet flybys and anything else in the news
Guest on Event Horizon, 22nd May 2010, talking M82, the SKA, and amateur radio astronomy with Nick Evetts and Marty Kunz
On-air discussion about the Moon during #Moonwatch during the International Year of Astronomy

Random recordings and one-off contributions to other podcasts

The Naked Scientists: Interviewed about wide field imaging and the SKA by Chris Smith on August 19th 2010, may go out on a future episode.

Profs and Pints: a series of science-in-the-pub events run by Scitech in Perth in 2010. I was a "Prof" in the final of the series, titled "Astronomical Awesomeness". Media: ABC podcast here, UStream video here, my recordings of the speeches and the debate.

Darker Projects Doctor Who: Feb 2010, the DP team produced a dramatic (and totally awesome) version of Silver Spiral

DWO WhoCast: Feb 2010, talking supernovae and the science behind Silver Spiral

ABC's StarStuff podcast: 3rd February 2010, talking supernovae and GRBs (audio)

Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral: my own fictional short story explaining the science behind a Nature paper (read the original, and the reason for writing it)

Last updated: Wednesday, 17-Aug-2011 16:18:06 BST