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Libby Jackson

Michael Berkeley's guest is Libby Jackson, the head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency.

Libby Jackson is the head of Space Exploration for the UK Space Agency. She has turned a childhood passion for space into a wide-ranging career. She was flight instructor and controller at Europe’s Mission Control Centre for the International Space Station. She then joined the UK Space Agency in 2014 and led their education programme when the astronaut Tim Peake went into space. She is now one of Britain’s leading experts in human spaceflight, and last year was awarded an OBE for her work.

Libby’s musical passions reflect the vast wonder of space but also her love of choral music and her adventures in Newfoundland as a teenager with works by Handel, Verdi and Shanneyganock.

Producer Clare Walker

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36 minutes

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Sun 16 Apr 2023 12:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter from The Planets

    Performer: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Dies Irae from Requiem

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Irene Sankoff

    Screech In

    Lyricist: David Hein. Performer: Shanneyganock.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.

  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei (choral)

    Performer: Accentus Chamber Choir. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Go!

    • The Race for Space.
    • Test Card Recordings.

  • Jennifer Walshe

    The Site of an Investigation

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • George Michael

    My Baby Just Cares for Me (Live)

    • Songs From the Last Century.
    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Apr 2023 12:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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