6,000 Exoplanets and Counting
On September 17, 2025, NASA announced that the number of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. In the three decades since the groundbreaking detection of exoplanet 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed planet orbiting a Sun-like star, astronomers have concluded that exotic worlds are everywhere.


Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 162: 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

On episode 402, NASA’s all-American 2025 astronaut candidates share a little about themselves by playing a fun icebreaker game. 

Houston We Have a Podcast: On a Desert Island with the 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates

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Henry Winter on the postponement of Man Utd v Bournemouth

The manager of Fidelity's flagship Special Situations fund explains his investment strategy

Alex Wright explains why contrarian  investing pays off

Journeyman DOP Laurie Rose tells us how he helped Paddy Considine's boxing tragedy Journeyman get into shape; The UK's best new film critic (who's 10) explains what it's like to win an Into Film award; a punk rocker presents New Wave, the new season being held as part of the BFI's African Odysseys strand; and we find some archive audio of Derek Jarman saying cheeky things about the royals. 

The BFI podcast - four stories from across the British film industry - is written, presented and produced by Henry Barnes: https://twitter.com/henryhbarnes?lang=en.

This episode contains clips from the following: 

- Journeyman, directed by Paddy Considine and released in 2018 by StudioCanal.
- Journey's End, directed by Saul Dibb and released in 2017 by Lionsgate. 

This episode contains the following music, all used under license via Audio Network, unless otherwise stated:

- Throwback Jack, written and performed by Tim Garland. Released in 2003.
- Soul Brother 2, written and performed by Gareth Johnson and Justin Johnson. Released in 2009. 
- Eastern Mystique, written and performed by Bruce Maginnis and Daniel Weltlinger. Released in 2011.
- Down the Pun, written and performed by Bob Bradley and Chris Egan. Released in 2013. 
- Dream Number 9, written and performed by Stephanie Phillips, Chardine Taylor-Stone and Kiera Coward-Deyell. Released in 2014.

The BFI podcast

The BFI podcast: Derek Jarman, Journeyman DOP Laurie Rose, African Odysseys: New Wave and Into Film

The BFI Podcast: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Robin Campillo 

We round up the highlights of BFI Flare, Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival, which included Rupert Everett instructing an audience on the fine art of re-creating Oscar Wilde’s genitals, Robin Campillo explaining how his film, 120 BPM, carries the spirit of the French Aids activist group Act Up and Hugh Grant, reflecting on the experience of “playing gay” across the years and the time he snogged a Bear (Paddington Bear AKA Ben Whishaw ... in character ... for the BBC’s upcoming Jeremy Thorpe biopic). 

The BFI podcast - four stories from across the British film industry - is written, presented and produced by Henry Barnes: twitter.com/henryhbarnes?lang=en.

This episode contains clips from the following:

- Maurice, directed by James Ivory and released in 1987 by 
	Cinecom Pictures.
- 120 BPM, directed by Robin Campillo and released in 2018 by Memento Films.
- Torch Song Trilogy, directed by Paul Bogart and released in 1988 by New Line Cinema.
- Three Men and a Baby, directed by Leonard Nimoy and released in 1987 by Buena Vista Pictures.
- Modern Family – “The Wedding”, directed by Alisa Statman and released in 2014 by 20th Century Fox. 

This episode contains the following music, all used under license via Audio Network, unless otherwise stated:

- Throwback Jack, written and performed by Tim Garland. Released in 2003.
- Shortie, written and performed by Bob Bradley and Chris Egan. Released in 2002.

The BFI Podcast

The BFI Podcast: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Robin Campillo - BFI Flare special

We go wild this week with a menagerie of animal-based filmic bits and bobs from across the British film industry. Weekend and 45 Years director Andrew Haigh leads in Lean On Pete, his Pacific Northwest-set drama about a wandering teen and an ageing racehorse; Writer-director Michael Pearce introduces his sprightly, nasty debut Beast and film-maker John Bradburn displays an infectious enthusiasm for Pandemic, his interactive film about pig-human hybrids. Plus, we talk to New York film journalist Nick Pinkerton about The Other Side of the 80s, his extended feature about alternative 80s film-making, which makes Sight and Sound's front cover next issue. Nick is technically an animal, which we mention only to stretch our conceit to its breaking point.

*Play Pandemic here! https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/pandemic-behind-the-scenes/*

The BFI podcast - four stories from across the British film industry - is written, presented and produced by Henry Barnes: twitter.com/henryhbarnes?lang=en.

This episode contains clips from the following:

- Lean On Pete, directed by Andrew Haigh and released in 2018 by
Curzon Artificial Eye.
- Pandemic, directed by John Bradburn and released in 2018 by The Science Museum.
- Cutter's Way, directed by Ivan Passer and released in 1981 by United Artists.
- The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes and released in 1985 by Universal Pictures.
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, directed by Stephen Spielberg and released in 1982 by Universal Pictures.
- The Terminator, directed by James Cameron and released in 1984 by Orion Pictures.
- Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985 by Universal Pictures. 
- Beast, directed by Michael Pearce and released in 2017 by 30 West. 

This episode contains the following music, all used under license via Audio Network, unless otherwise stated:

- Throwback Jack, written and performed by Tim Garland. Released in 2003.
- Island Love, written and performed by Tom Peters and Lorenzo De Feo. Released in 2017.
- Your Love Part Two, written and performed by Lyndrey Holder. Released in 2017.
- Time is on Your Side, written and performed by Pete Masitti and John Andrew Barrow. Released in 2017.
- Left of the Dial, written and performed by Alex Chilton and The Replacements. Released in 1985.
- Don't Skip Out on Me, written and performed by Richmond Fontaine. Released in 2016.

BFI Podcast

The BFI Podcast: Andrew Haigh, Beast director Michael Pearce, interactive film and 80s cinema

Please enjoy these official :90 clips from the THE DARK KNIGHT RISES soundtrack - I will be sharing more here as we near the release on July 17!  

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A Storm is Coming

How might artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural interface technology change the way we hear, experience and feel music?

Rough Trade Books and the Science Museum present an exploration of the future of technology for music and its fans, centring around newly published book 'Ecstatic Data Sets' by Late of the Pier. 

Joining us to explore these topics and more are:

Jarvis Cocker—former Pulp frontman, solo artist, writer and broadcaster

Sam Potter—musician in cult band Late of the Pier and author of 'Ecstatic Data Sets'

Hannah Peel—singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist musician

Prof Kelly Snook—Professor of Media Arts Technology, instrument maker, producer and NASA Lunar Program Scientist

Robert Thomas—composer, adaptive music producer, sound designer and programmer

We are also joined by artist Robert Barry for a reading from 'Three True Tales About Music and Technology', available from Rough Trade Books.

Future technologies in music

A panel of authors and journalists come together to discuss the disturbing re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.

Nationalism is on the rise and it’s perhaps no coincidence that dangerously divisive race science has seen a re-emergence in recent times. 

British science journalist Angela Saini’s 'Superior: The Return of Race Science', tells the story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences. It has been described as ‘a wake-up call for those who believe science is always objective and apolitical’. 

This discussion brings together Angela and a panel of acclaimed authors and journalists to discuss the roots of race science and to what extent it is on the rise in 2019. 

Speakers include: 

Samira Ahmed – journalist, writer and broadcaster whose credits include BBC Front Row and Newswatch. she writes for the Guardian and New Humanist and is a visiting Professor of Journalism at Kingston University.
Derek Bardowell – former journalist and author of 'No Win Race: A Story of Belonging, Britishness and Sport', published in May 2019
Gavin Evans – lecturer at Birkbeck University and author of 'Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race', to be published in August 2019
Angela Saini – science journalist and author of 'Superior: The Return of Race Science'

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