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The Tribes of Science: Episode 4: The Astronomers

The Astronomers

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Episode 4: The Astronomers

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Peter Curran meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Can this world-famous and pioneering tribe survive being relocated to Manchester University?

Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. 

Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory. For 50 years, astronomers at the Jodrell Bank worked with colleagues around an iconic radio telescope that famously spotted Sputnik. But now most of the Jodrell tribe are leaving their telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside and moving to Manchester. The telescope will survive as it is a listed building, but will the tribe?

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Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied disciplines of science

Scientists are often viewed as a homogenous bunch but, from astronomers to zoologists, there are many and varied Tribes of Science. Peter Curran goes on a mission to study their unique cultures

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