Carl Sagan drives a mock space-ship for TV cameras in the big American television series Cosmos. He turns the evolution of the universe into a popular story and believes there is life on other planets. He is also a serious scientist, Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies and David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell
University. Rodney Smith talks to him in this week's Profile. Producer
GWYNETH WILLIAMS
(Repeated: Sat 4.10 pm)
(Cosmos is on BBC1, Wed,
10.15 pm)