I frequently feature on radio to talk about current science news, events, and new discoveries.

regular live Radio ‘Appearances’

• BBC Stoke, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Shropshire, BBC Nottingham, BBC Derby, BBC Leicester, BBC WM, and BBC CWR, November 2023 – present. Once per month, I talk science with Arun Verma.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, June 2019 – June 2020. Once every month or so I chatted with Alan Clifford about all things space, geology, and what’s going on in the Nottingham science scene.

• BBC Radio Bristol, October 2018 – June 2021. Monthly science feature on the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show. Topics range from active space missions, new discoveries, and how people can get involved.

Audio productions

• BBC Radio Wales, June 2022. Science Cafe: Meteorites. A feature-length program about the world of meteorites and asteroids.

• Audiobook, 2020. Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World. I narrated my own audiobook for my debut book, Meteorite.

• BBC Radio 4, December 2019. Midwinter: Poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year. I contributed to a short radio documentary on the cultural, artistic, and astronomical significance of the solstice.

• BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. When the Moon Came to Bristol. I presented a one-hour audio documentary about the arrival of Apollo 11 samples in Bristol in 1969 and their analysis at the University of Bristol.

Other Live Radio "Appearances"

• LBC, October 2024. SpaceX and reusable rockets.

• BBC Radio Leeds, October 2024. Northern Lights and solar radiation.

• BBC Radio Leeds, August 2024. Meteor shower, solar radiation, and northern lights.

• BBC Radio Leeds, February 2024. Solar radiation.

• BBC Radio Humberside, January 2024. This year in space.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, November 2023. The Arun Verma Show.

• BBC Radio Leeds, October 2023. Asteroids and the future of humanity.

• BBC Radio Wales, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.

• BBC Radio Wiltshire, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.

• BBC Radio Leeds, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.

• BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.

• BBC Radio Gloucestershire, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.

• BBC Radio Northampton, September 2023.

• BBC Radio 1, September 2023. Asteroids, human extinction, and OSIRIS-REx.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, August 2023. What colour is the Sun?

• BBC Radio 1, April 2023. SpaceX rocket launch.

• BBC Radio Leeds, March 2023. Ultramassive black holes.

• BBC Radio Leeds, March 2023. Asteroid near miss.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, January 2023. Chemistry of comets.

• BBC Radio Leeds, January 2023. The British space industry.

• BBC Radio Leeds, January 2023. The Quadrantid meteor shower.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, December 2022. Science gifts for Christmas lovers.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, December 2022. Nuclear fusion breakthrough.

• BBC Radio Leeds, December 2022. Christmas and science.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, December 2022. The Gemini Meteor Shower.

• BBC Radio Leeds, September 2022. NASA’s DART mission.

• Instant Genius Podcast, September 2022. NASA’s DART mission.

• Instant Genius Podcast, July 2022. Meteorites.

• BBC Radio Leeds, June 2022. Asteroid and Meteor Day.

• BBC Radio Leeds, May 2022. Lunar eclipse.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, April 2022. Discovery of a giant comet.

• Radio 5 Live, April 2022. Asteroids impacts and life on Earth.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, February 2022. Meteorite auctions and a piece of Mars.

• BBC Radio Bristol, February 2022. Asteroids.

• The Times Radio, January 2022. The Mars Spirit Rover.

• The Times Radio, December 2021. Astronomical nutation.

• The Times Radio, November 2021. NASA’s asteroid deflection mission.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, October 2021. The Orionid meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Leeds, July 2021. Moon Day.

• BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, May 2021. The Winchcombe meteorite.

• BBC Radio Leeds, April 2021. The Lyrid meteor shower.

• BBC Radio Leeds, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, March 2021. Fireball spotted in the sky!

• BBC Radio Bristol, February 2021. Leap years.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, February 2021. The Perseverance Mars rover.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, January 2021. Meteors caught on camera.

• BBC Radio Leeds, December 2020. The Great Conjunction.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, November 2020. An astronomical month.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, October 2020. The Orionid meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Leeds, October 2020. Mars.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, August 2020. The weekly news roundup.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, August 2020. Meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Kent, August 2020. Meteor showers.

• BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, August 2020. Meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Leeds, August 2020. Meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Kent, August 2020. SpaceX.

• BBC Radio Leeds, July 2020. Comet NEOWISE.

• BBC Radio Bristol, April 2020. Bitezie, and the night sky.

• BBC Radio Bristol, April 2020. The Lyrics and Starlink.

• BBC Radio Leeds, April 2019. The Lyrid meteor shower.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, March 2019. Music picks.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, February 2019. This month in space science, and live science Q&As.

• BBC Radio Bristol, March 2020. The expanding universe.

• BBC Radio Nottingham, October 2019. Review of the newspapers.

• BBC Radio Leeds, July 2019. Lunar Eclipse, Neil Armstrong, and the Future of Space Exploration.

• BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. Should we spend money on travelling to the Moon?

• BBC Radio Solent, July 2019. The Big Bang and Nucleosynthesis.

• BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. Jodrell Bank, Sir Bernard Lovell, and radio astronomy.

• BBC Radio Leeds, April 2019. Images of a black hole!

• BBC Radio Leeds, March 2019. Live from Houston, Texas.

• BBC Radio Leeds, February 2019. Is it a meteorite!?

• BBC Radio Bristol, February 2019. Happy Hour.

• BBC Radio Bristol, January 2019. Two Songs I Love.

• BBC Radio Bristol, January 2019. China’s Moon Mission.

• BBC Radio Leeds, December 2018. One-hour programme about the “year in space”.

• BBC Radio Bristol, December 2018. The Geminid Meteor Shower.

• BBC Radio Bristol, November 2018. NASA’s InSight Mission, and the future of Martian exploration.

• BBC Radio Leeds, November 2018. NASA’s InSight Mission.

• BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Morning Live), November 2018. Meteor showers.

• BBC Radio Bristol, September 2018. The Sky at Night and meteorites.

• BBC Radio Leeds, August 2018. The hole in the ISS, and really fast space rocks.

• BBC Radio Leeds, July 2018. The Perseids Meteor Shower.

• BBC Radio Leeds, June 2018. Blood Moon.

• BBC Radio Leeds, November 2017. All things "astronauts".

• BBC Radio Bristol, August 2017. Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?

• BBC Radio Leeds, August 2017. Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?

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All views are my own and not those of my employer.