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1antimuzak
Monday 15th January 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
King Ceyx must journey by sea to consult the oracle, despite his wife's premonitions, in the first of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jim Norton (Ovid), Clare Corbett (Alcyone), Philip Bretherton (Ceyx), Neil McCaul (Somnus), Isabella Inchbald (Juno), Tayla Kovacevi-Ebong (Captain), Abbie Andrews (Handmaiden). episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
King Ceyx must journey by sea to consult the oracle, despite his wife's premonitions, in the first of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jim Norton (Ovid), Clare Corbett (Alcyone), Philip Bretherton (Ceyx), Neil McCaul (Somnus), Isabella Inchbald (Juno), Tayla Kovacevi-Ebong (Captain), Abbie Andrews (Handmaiden). episode 1.
2antimuzak
Monday 22nd January 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Forgetting.
Professor Francis O'Gorman examines some of the ordinary ways in which the modern, and particularly technological world makes forgetfulness part of our daily routine. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Forgetting.
Professor Francis O'Gorman examines some of the ordinary ways in which the modern, and particularly technological world makes forgetfulness part of our daily routine. episode 1.
3antimuzak
Tuesday 6th February 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
All Miss Brodie's Girls?
Poet Kate Clanchy discusses the life and work of Muriel Spark. Spark, whose centenary falls in February 2018, was a Scot, an exile, a poet, a codebreaker, a convert to a particularly Calvinist form of Catholicism from a particularly low-key Judaism and the cosmopolitan author of slender, sophisticated novels whose bestselling book mined her own schooldays in the Edinburgh of the 1930s. episode 2.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
All Miss Brodie's Girls?
Poet Kate Clanchy discusses the life and work of Muriel Spark. Spark, whose centenary falls in February 2018, was a Scot, an exile, a poet, a codebreaker, a convert to a particularly Calvinist form of Catholicism from a particularly low-key Judaism and the cosmopolitan author of slender, sophisticated novels whose bestselling book mined her own schooldays in the Edinburgh of the 1930s. episode 2.
4antimuzak
Monday 19th February 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
New Ways Through the Glens.
Poet Kenneth Steven looks at the ways in which the Scottish Highlands were conquered through the building of roads and canals, including the building programme of General Wade, who was determined to pacify the warring clans. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
New Ways Through the Glens.
Poet Kenneth Steven looks at the ways in which the Scottish Highlands were conquered through the building of roads and canals, including the building programme of General Wade, who was determined to pacify the warring clans. episode 1.
5antimuzak
Monday 26th February 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Are You Paying Attention?
The writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting begins a week-long exploration of why attention has become a major social concern - and how our attention is harnessed to make money. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Are You Paying Attention?
The writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting begins a week-long exploration of why attention has become a major social concern - and how our attention is harnessed to make money. episode 1.
6antimuzak
Tuesday 6th March 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
How great artists responded to the First World War in individual works. BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet reflects on novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
How great artists responded to the First World War in individual works. BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet reflects on novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France.
7antimuzak
Monday 16th April 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Secret Admirers.
Radio 3 presenter Penny Gore celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her, the Moravian Leos Janacek. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Secret Admirers.
Radio 3 presenter Penny Gore celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her, the Moravian Leos Janacek. episode 1.
8antimuzak
Monday 30th April 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
My Life in Music.
Folk singer Chris Wood remembers both the profound and the mundane effect of singing in Canterbury Cathedral as a child, beginning the series in which five musicians write about the music that has shaped their personal lives. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
My Life in Music.
Folk singer Chris Wood remembers both the profound and the mundane effect of singing in Canterbury Cathedral as a child, beginning the series in which five musicians write about the music that has shaped their personal lives. episode 1.
9antimuzak
Thursday 28th June 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
New Generation Thinkers.
4: John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet. The trilingual lawyer poet whose response to political upheaval has lessons for our time explored by New Generation Thinker Seb Falk with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. episode 4.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
New Generation Thinkers.
4: John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet. The trilingual lawyer poet whose response to political upheaval has lessons for our time explored by New Generation Thinker Seb Falk with an audience at the York Festival of Ideas. episode 4.
10antimuzak
Monday 2nd July 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Narrative Medicine - 1: James Baldwin's Short Story, Sonny's Blues.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Narrative Medicine - 1: James Baldwin's Short Story, Sonny's Blues.
11antimuzak
Monday 16th July 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Letters to Writers - 1: Dear Geoffrey Chaucer.
In his series of imaginary correspondences, novelist Ian Sansom writes letters to some of literary history's most celebrated figures and interrogates them about their art... Ian is writing to a certain Geoffrey Chaucer. episode 1.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Letters to Writers - 1: Dear Geoffrey Chaucer.
In his series of imaginary correspondences, novelist Ian Sansom writes letters to some of literary history's most celebrated figures and interrogates them about their art... Ian is writing to a certain Geoffrey Chaucer. episode 1.
12antimuzak
Wednesday 18th July 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Letters to Writers - 3: Dear George Eliot.
In his series of imaginary correspondences, novelist Ian Sansom writes letters to some of literary history's most celebrated figures and interrogates them about their art... Ian is writing an imaginary letter to George Eliot, but she appears to be ignoring him. episode 3.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Letters to Writers - 3: Dear George Eliot.
In his series of imaginary correspondences, novelist Ian Sansom writes letters to some of literary history's most celebrated figures and interrogates them about their art... Ian is writing an imaginary letter to George Eliot, but she appears to be ignoring him. episode 3.
13antimuzak
Monday 1st October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world. Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics. In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony - still so prevalent in art - continues to underpin science as well. Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras' scale for the nature of the night sky, the different mediaeval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets - which still hold true today. In this first essay, Stuart traces the origins of the music of the spheres. From a blacksmith's shop in Italy, to the universal harmony sung by the universe - where the planets all revolve around the Earth. The music of the spheres was the first theory of life, the universe and everything. But is it really so different, or far-fetched, to today's theory that the universe is made up of tiny wiggling bits of string? This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Could the wonders of the universe and nature of creation be explained through music? The music of the spheres was a serious intellectual idea that applied music theory to the search for underlying order in the natural world. Conceived in the 6th century BC, the concept survived for centuries, influencing poets and playwrights, including Shakespeare and Milton, and artists such as Botticelli. It culminated in the 17th century when German astronomer Kepler used the music of the cosmos to give birth to modern astrophysics. In these five essays, astronomer and award-winning science writer Dr Stuart Clark argues that the concept of harmony - still so prevalent in art - continues to underpin science as well. Episodes feature original music, composed and performed by Carollyn Eden, to underscore the ideas being discussed. We hear Pythagoras' scale for the nature of the night sky, the different mediaeval church modes associated with the cosmos and music based on the intervals that Kepler calculated for the planets - which still hold true today. In this first essay, Stuart traces the origins of the music of the spheres. From a blacksmith's shop in Italy, to the universal harmony sung by the universe - where the planets all revolve around the Earth. The music of the spheres was the first theory of life, the universe and everything. But is it really so different, or far-fetched, to today's theory that the universe is made up of tiny wiggling bits of string? This series of essays is produced by Richard Hollingham and is a Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 3.
14antimuzak
Tuesday 16th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Walk through a dark forest and you can't escape the brooding presence of the Brothers Grimm. Unwilling to stray from the path? A glimmer of sharp, white teeth behind that tree? It's the Brothers Grimm to blame. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is joined by the writer and illustrator Chris Riddell for a walk through the deep, dark Germanic forest of the Grimms' imagination. The company may be agreeable and the conversation fascinating but be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind. Producer: Alasdair Cross.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Walk through a dark forest and you can't escape the brooding presence of the Brothers Grimm. Unwilling to stray from the path? A glimmer of sharp, white teeth behind that tree? It's the Brothers Grimm to blame. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is joined by the writer and illustrator Chris Riddell for a walk through the deep, dark Germanic forest of the Grimms' imagination. The company may be agreeable and the conversation fascinating but be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind. Producer: Alasdair Cross.
15antimuzak
Tuesday 23rd October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Poet Sean O'Brien considers the reputations of two very different poets: the raw versus the cooked, the shaman versus the rationalist, Ted Hughes versus Philip Larkin. It's 20 years this month since the death of Ted Hughes, we are still arguing about his legacy. In a new series of the Radio 3 Essay, leading poets bring a sharp eye to the poems themselves, reminding us why Hughes is regarded as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers, and exploring how the works match up to, inform and contradict what we know of the man. Recorded before a live audience at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Written and read by Sean O'Brien Produced by Simon Richardson.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Poet Sean O'Brien considers the reputations of two very different poets: the raw versus the cooked, the shaman versus the rationalist, Ted Hughes versus Philip Larkin. It's 20 years this month since the death of Ted Hughes, we are still arguing about his legacy. In a new series of the Radio 3 Essay, leading poets bring a sharp eye to the poems themselves, reminding us why Hughes is regarded as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers, and exploring how the works match up to, inform and contradict what we know of the man. Recorded before a live audience at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Written and read by Sean O'Brien Produced by Simon Richardson.
16antimuzak
Wednesday 24th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes' work during a troubled childhood. To her his books were more a mood: a dark and brooding presence but one that resonated. That subconscious memory left a deep and metaphorical imprint that has infused her own work in its relationships with landscape, loss and grief. It's 20 years this month since the death of Ted Hughes, we are still arguing about his legacy. In a new series of the Radio 3 Essay, leading poets bring a sharp eye to the poems themselves, reminding us why Hughes is regarded as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers, and exploring how the works match up to, inform and contradict what we know of the man. Recorded before a live audience at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Written and read by Karen McCarthy Woolf Produced by Simon Richardson.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes' work during a troubled childhood. To her his books were more a mood: a dark and brooding presence but one that resonated. That subconscious memory left a deep and metaphorical imprint that has infused her own work in its relationships with landscape, loss and grief. It's 20 years this month since the death of Ted Hughes, we are still arguing about his legacy. In a new series of the Radio 3 Essay, leading poets bring a sharp eye to the poems themselves, reminding us why Hughes is regarded as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest writers, and exploring how the works match up to, inform and contradict what we know of the man. Recorded before a live audience at the BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival in Hull. Written and read by Karen McCarthy Woolf Produced by Simon Richardson.
17antimuzak
Monday 5th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art. 1.Imaobong Umoren tells the story behind W.E.B. Dubois' seminal editorial, Returning Soldiers, which laid the early foundations of the Black Lives Matter campaign. Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, Du Bois was raised by a single mother who descended from African, English and Dutch ancestors. Growing up in the racially mixed town of Great Barrington, Du Bois attended public school alongside both white and black pupils and, at an early age, was singled out for his intellect. He was to grow up to become one of the leading scholars and activists of the twentieth century on what was then termed the 'Negro Problem'. Published in The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Returning Soldiers', was based on the experiences that Du Bois had during his three-month visit to France from December 1918 to March 1919. Imaobong tells the story behind its writing and uncovers its continuing importance in today's Black Lives Matter campaign. Dr Imaobong D Umoren is Assistant Professor of International History of Gender at London School of Economics and Political Science.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art. 1.Imaobong Umoren tells the story behind W.E.B. Dubois' seminal editorial, Returning Soldiers, which laid the early foundations of the Black Lives Matter campaign. Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, Du Bois was raised by a single mother who descended from African, English and Dutch ancestors. Growing up in the racially mixed town of Great Barrington, Du Bois attended public school alongside both white and black pupils and, at an early age, was singled out for his intellect. He was to grow up to become one of the leading scholars and activists of the twentieth century on what was then termed the 'Negro Problem'. Published in The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Returning Soldiers', was based on the experiences that Du Bois had during his three-month visit to France from December 1918 to March 1919. Imaobong tells the story behind its writing and uncovers its continuing importance in today's Black Lives Matter campaign. Dr Imaobong D Umoren is Assistant Professor of International History of Gender at London School of Economics and Political Science.
18antimuzak
Wednesday 7th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art. 3.Jane Potter on The Forbidden Zone, a depiction of nursing life at the Front by Mary Borden. Mary Borden was an Anglo-American novelist who served for four years as a nurse in a military hospital at the Front. Jane Potter celebrates a work which, like those of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, vividly depicts the horror of the Trenches and yet is far less well known. Producer; Beaty Rubens.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art. 3.Jane Potter on The Forbidden Zone, a depiction of nursing life at the Front by Mary Borden. Mary Borden was an Anglo-American novelist who served for four years as a nurse in a military hospital at the Front. Jane Potter celebrates a work which, like those of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, vividly depicts the horror of the Trenches and yet is far less well known. Producer; Beaty Rubens.
19antimuzak
Tuesday 11th December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Annie Proulx wrote, in The Shipping News: "You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music". In this series of Radio 3's The Essay authors meditate on a piece of music that has formed the back-drop to their craft. In five intimate radio essays they explore how pieces inspire creativity through mood, narrative or structure, inviting us to step into the music - and the author's - inner world. Best-selling novelist Barbara Trapido was so inspired by Stravinsky's 're-composed' Pulcinella ballet, it sparked not one book, but two. In this short radio essay she explores how in the ballet - as in her writing - nothing is as it seems.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Annie Proulx wrote, in The Shipping News: "You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music". In this series of Radio 3's The Essay authors meditate on a piece of music that has formed the back-drop to their craft. In five intimate radio essays they explore how pieces inspire creativity through mood, narrative or structure, inviting us to step into the music - and the author's - inner world. Best-selling novelist Barbara Trapido was so inspired by Stravinsky's 're-composed' Pulcinella ballet, it sparked not one book, but two. In this short radio essay she explores how in the ballet - as in her writing - nothing is as it seems.
20antimuzak
Monday 7th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest and most frequently anthologised odes in the English language, fresh-minting phrases now in common use, such as "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....","Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." and "O, for a beaker full of the warm South....." All this week, leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode, explaining what it means to them. From her home in rural Devon, Alice Oswald brings together her unique blend of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and personal impressions as she explores Keats' great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. Classically educated poet and former gardener, Alice Oswald, has won many awards and is commonly considered to be amongst the greatest poets writing in English today.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest and most frequently anthologised odes in the English language, fresh-minting phrases now in common use, such as "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....","Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." and "O, for a beaker full of the warm South....." All this week, leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode, explaining what it means to them. From her home in rural Devon, Alice Oswald brings together her unique blend of poetic sensibility, classical scholarship and personal impressions as she explores Keats' great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn. Classically educated poet and former gardener, Alice Oswald, has won many awards and is commonly considered to be amongst the greatest poets writing in English today.
21antimuzak
Monday 28th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Frustratingly banal plots and often incomprehensible lyrics meant that for much of his listening life Julian Barnes had 'a serious problem with opera'. Then all that changed. In an attempt to demystify this huge and multifaceted genre for the BBC's Opera season, five creative individuals examine their own encounters with opera, as an art form and as a life-enhancing and sometimes life-changing emotional experience. These personal essays reveal the variety of ways in which opera can seduce, fascinate, bore, frustrate and excite. Opera - Coming to it Late, written and read by Julian Barnes
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Frustratingly banal plots and often incomprehensible lyrics meant that for much of his listening life Julian Barnes had 'a serious problem with opera'. Then all that changed. In an attempt to demystify this huge and multifaceted genre for the BBC's Opera season, five creative individuals examine their own encounters with opera, as an art form and as a life-enhancing and sometimes life-changing emotional experience. These personal essays reveal the variety of ways in which opera can seduce, fascinate, bore, frustrate and excite. Opera - Coming to it Late, written and read by Julian Barnes
22antimuzak
Monday 29th April 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Dear Dante. Episode 1.
Ian Sansom has a series of imaginary correspondence with the world's great writers, beginning by asking Dante Alighieri if he really meant all those things he wrote about Hell.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Dear Dante. Episode 1.
Ian Sansom has a series of imaginary correspondence with the world's great writers, beginning by asking Dante Alighieri if he really meant all those things he wrote about Hell.
23antimuzak
Monday 27th May 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Robinson Crusoe at Hay. Episode 5.
In this series of talks recorded in front of an audience at this year's Hay Festival, five writers respond to the themes of Daniel Defoe's literary classic Robinson Crusoe, beginning with Fiona Stafford looking at what Crusoe the narrator was most surprised by, and the stranger aspects of the book.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
Robinson Crusoe at Hay. Episode 5.
In this series of talks recorded in front of an audience at this year's Hay Festival, five writers respond to the themes of Daniel Defoe's literary classic Robinson Crusoe, beginning with Fiona Stafford looking at what Crusoe the narrator was most surprised by, and the stranger aspects of the book.
24antimuzak
Monday 1st July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
A Worldwide Preoccupation. Episode 1.
In the first of five Essays, writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting begins a week-long exploration of why attention has become a major social concern. Attention, she finds, is now big business - where we cast our eyes on a computer screen, and for how long, has become a key factor in advertising. Attention is something we both 'pay' and want to 'attract' - and for a journalist, Madeleine admits, it can be quite addictive.
Time: 22:45 to 23:00 (15 minutes long)
A Worldwide Preoccupation. Episode 1.
In the first of five Essays, writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting begins a week-long exploration of why attention has become a major social concern. Attention, she finds, is now big business - where we cast our eyes on a computer screen, and for how long, has become a key factor in advertising. Attention is something we both 'pay' and want to 'attract' - and for a journalist, Madeleine admits, it can be quite addictive.
25antimuzak
Sunday 7th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)
For All Mankind. Episode 1.
For more than 15 years there have always been people living and working in space and the pace of space exploration is, once again, accelerating. NASA hopes to use a new giant rocket to land humans on Mars by 2035 and private companies are developing spaceships, space stations and asteroid mining operations. European Space Agency engineers are planning a Moon base and serious academics are contemplating government and society beyond the Earth. The US military is even funding the design of a starship. Ultimately, if humanity is to survive into the far future then we have to leave our home planet. In the first essay in this series on our future in space, Science journalist and author Dr Stuart Clark sets out the case for leaving Earth. He argues that our urge to explore space and travel to the stars is not a modern yearning but can be traced back more than 500 years to the dawn of scientific observation of the cosmos. Our world is fragile and the Universe ambivalent to our existence. Stuart argues that we have to leave Earth if only to back up the biosphere. He also contemplates the deeper moral and philosophical reasons for sending humanity out deep into the cosmos. One interpretation of physics suggests the very nature, and future, of reality depends on it.
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)
For All Mankind. Episode 1.
For more than 15 years there have always been people living and working in space and the pace of space exploration is, once again, accelerating. NASA hopes to use a new giant rocket to land humans on Mars by 2035 and private companies are developing spaceships, space stations and asteroid mining operations. European Space Agency engineers are planning a Moon base and serious academics are contemplating government and society beyond the Earth. The US military is even funding the design of a starship. Ultimately, if humanity is to survive into the far future then we have to leave our home planet. In the first essay in this series on our future in space, Science journalist and author Dr Stuart Clark sets out the case for leaving Earth. He argues that our urge to explore space and travel to the stars is not a modern yearning but can be traced back more than 500 years to the dawn of scientific observation of the cosmos. Our world is fragile and the Universe ambivalent to our existence. Stuart argues that we have to leave Earth if only to back up the biosphere. He also contemplates the deeper moral and philosophical reasons for sending humanity out deep into the cosmos. One interpretation of physics suggests the very nature, and future, of reality depends on it.
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