The Jodcast is an student-led astronomy podcast based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. With our first episode airing in 2006, we are one of the longest running astronomy podcasts in the UK. We aim to share cutting-edge astrophysics research with the wider public, and challenge the stereotypes of who can be an astronomer. In our episodes, you can listen to interviews with researchers about their work, hear the latest space news and get your astronomy questions answered. Over the years we have featured interviews with Professor Brian Cox, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Buzz Aldrin and Rosemary Coogan just to name a few! So, if you want to get a peak behind the curtain (or massive 76 metre dish!) and find out what's happening in astronomy - The Jodcast is the podcast for you!
Latest episodes
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June 2007
Tick, tick, tick. Forty years on from the first observations of pulsating neutron stars we talk to the discoverer of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She tells us about her
May 31 2007 1 h 01 min
May 2007 Extra
This is the first of our new mid-month shows. First we get some breaking news from the Hubble Space Telescope, we listen to the second half of our interview with Carole M
May 15 2007 29 min
May 2007
May 2007 is when everything changes. Well, not quite everything. The Jodcast may have gone twice-monthly, but we remain in roughly the same cheesy format as before. This
May 1 2007 1 h 00 min
NAM 2007
We're on the road in Preston at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting. Our first special show describes what NAM is and what happened on the first day. In our second show w
Apr 22 2007 1 h 51 min
April 2007
Aliens have landed at Stonehenge! Actually they haven't, and we aren't serious about horoscopes either, but we nearly had you fooled there. Luckily, the rest of our April
Apr 1 2007 1 h 09 min
March 2007
This month we took our brand new recording kit to Astronomy Now's Astrofest 2007 to talk to some of the exhibitors and visitors. Back at base, Nick catches up with Ciska
Mar 1 2007 1 h 07 min
February 2007
This month we look back to the past, at the present and into the future; you'd almost think we stole the plot from A Christmas Carol. Ian Morison talks to Sir Bernard Lov
Feb 1 2007 1 h 12 min
January 2007
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Jodcast of 2007. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in astronomy. We talk to Martin Hardcastle about active ga
Jan 3 2007 1 h 11 min
December 2006
The last Jodcast of 2006 has arrived with Dave, Nick and Stuart all presenting via the wonders of the Internet. We start, as always, with a round up of the past month in
Dec 4 2006 1 h 08 min
November 2006
We have another packed show for you this month. Megan tells us the latest news in astronomy including exciting news about the STEREO mission, the Nobel Prize for physics
Nov 1 2006 1 h 05 min
October 2006
At the start of the month ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft plunged into the Moon. We caught up with one of the mission scientists to find out just what the SMART-1 mission's aims
Oct 3 2006 1 h 14 min
September 2006
This month, after all the excitement of the IAU General Assembly planet definition, we stay a bit closer to home and have a tour of the Jodrell Bank Control Room. We find
Sep 1 2006 1 h 13 min
August 2006
This month's show is all about stars. We talk to Dr Tim O'Brien about a recurrent nova in the constellation of Ophiuchus and Johanna Ashwell - an amateur astronomer and P
Aug 8 2006 1 h 01 min
July 2006
We get our very own Ian Morison to tell us about the history of SETI and how it will develop in the future plus we talk to the Chairman of Macclesfield Astronomical Socie
Jul 4 2006 57 min
June 2006
In this month's show we talk to Brother Guy Consolmagno (the Vatican Astronomer) and we find out about searches for planets around other stars using telescopes built with
Jun 1 2006 1 h 03 min
May 2006
In this month's show we talk to Ralph Spencer and Matt Strong about eVLBI, find out about the Southern Skywatch website and get a review of a Celestron NexStar 130SLT tel
May 5 2006 1 h 16 min
April 2006
In this month's show we find out about gamma ray bursts with Paul O'Brien, take a tour of the Mt. John Observatory in New Zealand, catch up on NASA's Stardust mission and
Apr 1 2006 1 h 14 min
March 2006
In this month's show we have three interviews where we talk to Helen Mason about the SOHO spacecraft, Nick Rattenbury about a newly discovered exoplanet and Mario di Magg
Mar 1 2006 59 min
February 2006
In this month's show we talk to Gerry Gilmore about the Gaia spacecraft and find out why he says the solar system will be oscillating like a jelly. We find out about the
Feb 6 2006 45 min
January 2006
In this month's show we go on a sound seeing tour of the Lovell Telescope during the winter solstice. On the way we discover why two pulsars orbiting each other is a good
Jan 14 2006 53 min
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In my opinion, the best long-running astronomy podcast out there. The presenters are pleasant and intelligent (and their voices aren’t annoying, which is a big podcast pet peeve of mine), and they are actual professional astronomers and university students who are well-acquainted with their subject matter.
The Jodcast has an approachable vibe for astronomy enthusiasts of any level, but isn’t afraid to do some really fascinating deep dives. Paired with the charming banter of the presenters as they go wildly off-topic and geek out, each episode is a thoroughly enjoyable listen.
One of my favorite things about the Jodcast is that it tries to stay classy, clean, and safe for a general audience. Based in England, it also provides a refreshing amount of coverage and interviews from the European astronomy scene.
If you’re looking for an intellectual science podcast that you can really sink your mental teeth into, you can’t go wrong with the Jodcast. (Bonus points for all the awesome accents!)
T.K. Arispe · Nov 2024
I just finished listening to the December 2018 Pantomime, and it was, to use a good British term (I'm Texan), brilliant. Just goes to show PHD candidates and post-docs have way too much time on their hands. I didn't recognize all the voices, but with the size of the cast, you must have called in most of the jodcasters from the last five years, and a few under-grounds to boot. I'm very familiar with the original story, and am very impressed with how y'all jod-ized it so well.
I've listened to every episode for going on ten years, and the Jodcast is without a doubt one of the best astronomy podcasts I've found. I struggle with the accents sometimes (you know us Americans), but the content is almost always very interesting. Keep up the great work.
squashotter · Mar 2019
Best podcast for staying up to date on the latest space news. Cast has a good variety of different expertise in astronomy and most don't take themselves too seriously. Great guests too! Thanks for putting out such an informative entertaining show, it's much appreciated!!
Bernie999999 · Jul 2017
It's been about eight years since I last reviewed the Jodcast. I haven't missed a single episode in that time. Here you will learn about the wonders of astronomy and astrophysics from folks working in the field. They'll bring you the latest astronomy news, in depth interviews with leading researchers, great explanations of audience questions (ask an astronomer). All along the way they do their best to help new comers get up to speed while delivering first class science in a fun and lively manner.
Very high production quality without being over produced. You'll want to go to graduate school in astronomy with these folks. The best astronomy podcast available, and one of the best science podcasts out there.
Greg "windsurf" B. · Oct 2016
I use to listen to this podcast, and I always thought it was a great podcast until it was no longer made available in English. Unfortunately it is available only in Spanish. To sum it up, for all you english speakers, I would NOT recommend downloading this podcast unless you are lucky enough to be fluent in Spanish. Apparently English speakers are no longer considered important enough to make this podcast available in English any longer. Such a shame because it was a great podcast.
mapfreak2011 · Apr 2011
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