This year's Reith Lecturer is Professor Bernard Lovell, the first Director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Observatory, and Professor of Radio Astronomy at Manchester University. During the Second World War, he helped to develop radar systems for aircrafts, for which he received an OBE in 1946. He delivers six lectures on the wonders of the solar system in his series entitled 'The Individual and the Universe'.

In his third lecture entitled 'The New Astronomy', Professor Bernard Lovell considers the importance of technological advances in telescopes, and explains how to detect radio emissions from our stars. He explains how these techniques have increased our knowledge of our universe. Show less