To Catch a Falling Star
Astronomy is the earliest science known to man. But why does Britain go on researching into the origins of distant galaxies? And why does any basic scientific research need to be done at all? What's the commercial benefit from the science?
Horizon looks at the future of the Royal Greenwich
Observatory, caught in the middle of a 'rationalisation' of British research, and asks if the study of the stars, along with every other pure science, is something that one can afford not to do.
Narrator Paul Vaughan Film editor JAMES HAY
Written and produced by JOHN LYNCH
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
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