Special Edition of Click on March 31

On March 31, BBC will air a special edition of Click. For the BBC World Service in the US, the same schedule applies with a half-hour of the broadcast airing at 1430 ET. BBC will welcome US audiences to the program at that time. It’s also available to air as a one-hour or half-hour program, and will be made available to download from the BBC World Service partners website after it is broadcast.

Click: Space and Citizen Science

Program duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds) or 59 minutes including the News Bulletins, billboards & promos & 26 minutes 30 seconds (or 30 minutes including the News Summary, billboard & promo)

Download availability on www.bbc.co.uk/partners: from Tuesday 31 March 19:30 GMT for 7 days

BBC broadcast times:

APM | Tue 14:32 rpt 19:32; Wed 11:32; Sat 19:32 EDT  – NOTE The program will welcome new listeners at that time.

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A special edition of Click live from the BBC Radio Theatre in London as we take a look at Space and Citizen Science.

 

Our excitement over space has taken on new dimensions with nations such as India showing they too have the technical expertise and energy to mount a mission to Mars. Citizen science has also shown how ordinary people can make important contributions to the space adventure. Myriad groups of volunteers have launched their own ambitious projects: such as the space cowboys who decided to awaken a spacecraft, more or less forgotten by NASA; and the team who plan to build the first crowd-funded moon lander. In this special edition of Click, Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson are joined by a panel of experts to explore our fascination with Space, and to discuss how our knowledge of life beyond Earth benefits from the input of volunteers and citizen science.

Gareth and Bill are joined by: Mark McCaughrean from the European Space Agency; James Parr from the Open Space Agency; Kate Arkless Gray; Dennis Wingo; Pallava Bagla; Hannah Earnshaw, a Mars One volunteer; and Salena Godden who has been commissioned to write & perform a poem about Space.

 

Presented by Gareth Mitchell

 

Please note that this program is available in two durations. Each will be made available to download from the partners website after it is broadcast.

 

BBC broadcast times:

APM | Tue 14:32 rpt 19:32; Wed 11:32; Sat 19:32 EDT