Hebridean Dark Skies Festival Podcast
1) Juliana Capes
What do sunsets mean to you? Artist Juliana Capes describes how grief, a fascination with colour, and her work with visually impaired people all shaped Sunset Reports, a film in which she describes an...Show More
2) Roberto Trotta and Laura Cameron-Lewis
An Italian astrophysicist and a Hebridean theatre director discuss ancient storytelling traditions, how language shapes the way we think, interstellar travel, aliens, climate change, dark matter, and ...Show More
3) Catherine Heymans and Joe Zuntz
How do you make astronomy funny? Scotland's Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans is joined by comedy partner and fellow astrophysicist Joe Zuntz to discuss dark matter jokes, why astronomers love puns, ...Show More
4) Bethany Rigby
Designer and researcher Bethany Rigby is the creator of Outer Hebrides // Outer Space, a new project exploring the astronomical significance of the Hebrides. She discusses Scottish place names on Mars...Show More
5) Sheona Urquhart
Sheona Urquhart is an astrophysicist who studies the evolution of galaxies, telling stories about cosmic events on an unimaginable scale. She discusses studying distant galaxies from Hawaii, making TV...Show More
6) Renzo Spiteri
Should lockdown encourage us to listen to our immediate surroundings in a new way? We talk to composer and sound artist Renzo Spiteri, who creates music from field recordings of the landscape near his...Show More
7) Kari Leibowitz
Can 'wintertime mindset' strategies make us happier during the coldest, darkest months of the year? We talk to American health psychologist Kari Leibowitz, who has seen a new wave of interest in her w...Show More
8) Karine Polwart
We chat to Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart about art, UFOs, drunken elks, nuclear power, jam cupboards, Greek mythology, and her new theatre show inspired by the science of supernovas.