I frequently feature on radio to talk about current science news, events, and discoveries.
“I wish I could bottle the enthusiasm, passion, and sheer energy that makes Tim’s interviews on air so memorable. He loves his subject and listeners love him.”
regular live Radio ‘Appearances’
BBC Stoke, BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Shropshire, BBC Nottingham, BBC Derby, BBC Leicester, BBC WM, and BBC CWR, November 2023 – present. Once per month, I talk science with Arun Verma.
BBC Radio Nottingham, June 2019 – June 2020. Once every month or so I chatted with Alan Clifford about all things space, geology, and what’s going on in the Nottingham science scene.
BBC Radio Bristol, October 2018 – June 2021. Monthly science feature on the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show. Topics range from active space missions, new discoveries, and how people can get involved.
Audio productions
BBC Radio Wales, June 2022. Science Cafe: Meteorites. A feature-length program about the world of meteorites and asteroids.
Audiobook, 2020. Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World. I narrated my own audiobook for my debut book, Meteorite.
BBC Radio 4, December 2019. Midwinter: Poetry, music and meditations on the winter solstice and the shortest days of the year. I contributed to a short radio documentary on the cultural, artistic, and astronomical significance of the solstice.
BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. When the Moon Came to Bristol. I presented a one-hour audio documentary about the arrival of Apollo 11 samples in Bristol in 1969 and their analysis at the University of Bristol.
Other Live Radio "Appearances"
BBC Radio Leeds, February 2024. Solar radiation.
BBC Radio Humberside, January 2024. This year in space.
BBC Radio Nottingham, November 2023. The Arun Verma Show.
BBC Radio Leeds, October 2023. Asteroids and the future of humanity.
BBC Radio Wales, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.
BBC Radio Wiltshire, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.
BBC Radio Leeds, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.
BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire, September 2023. OSIRIS-REx and asteroids.
BBC Radio Northampton, September 2023.
BBC Radio 1, September 2023. Asteroids, human extinction, and OSIRIS-REx.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, August 2023. What colour is the Sun?
BBC Radio 1, April 2023. SpaceX rocket launch.
BBC Radio Leeds, March 2023. Ultramassive black holes.
BBC Radio Leeds, March 2023. Asteroid near miss.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, January 2023. Chemistry of comets.
BBC Radio Leeds, January 2023. The British space industry.
BBC Radio Leeds, January 2023. The Quadrantid meteor shower.
BBC Radio Nottingham, December 2022. Science gifts for Christmas lovers.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, December 2022. Nuclear fusion breakthrough.
BBC Radio Leeds, December 2022. Christmas and science.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, December 2022. The Gemini Meteor Shower.
BBC Radio Leeds, September 2022. NASA’s DART mission.
Instant Genius Podcast, September 2022. NASA’s DART mission.
Instant Genius Podcast, July 2022. Meteorites.
BBC Radio Leeds, June 2022. Asteroid and Meteor Day.
BBC Radio Leeds, May 2022. Lunar eclipse.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, April 2022. Discovery of a giant comet.
Radio 5 Live, April 2022. Asteroids impacts and life on Earth.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, February 2022. Meteorite auctions and a piece of Mars.
BBC Radio Bristol, February 2022. Asteroids.
The Times Radio, January 2022. The Mars Spirit Rover.
The Times Radio, December 2021. Astronomical nutation.
The Times Radio, November 2021. NASA’s asteroid deflection mission.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, October 2021. The Orionid meteor showers.
BBC Radio Leeds, July 2021. Moon Day.
BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, May 2021. The Winchcombe meteorite.
BBC Radio Leeds, April 2021. The Lyrid meteor shower.
BBC Radio Leeds, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.
BBC Radio Nottingham, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, March 2021. The new British meteorite fall.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, March 2021. Fireball spotted in the sky!
BBC Radio Bristol, February 2021. Leap years.
BBC Radio Nottingham, February 2021. The Perseverance Mars rover.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, January 2021. Meteors caught on camera.
BBC Radio Leeds, December 2020. The Great Conjunction.
BBC Radio Nottingham, November 2020. An astronomical month.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, October 2020. The Orionid meteor showers.
BBC Radio Leeds, October 2020. Mars.
BBC Radio Nottingham, August 2020. The weekly news roundup.
BBC Radio Nottingham, August 2020. Meteor showers.
BBC Radio Kent, August 2020. Meteor showers.
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, August 2020. Meteor showers.
BBC Radio Leeds, August 2020. Meteor showers.
BBC Radio Kent, August 2020. SpaceX.
BBC Radio Leeds, July 2020. Comet NEOWISE.
BBC Radio Bristol, April 2020. Bitezie, and the night sky.
BBC Radio Bristol, April 2020. The Lyrics and Starlink.
BBC Radio Leeds, April 2019. The Lyrid meteor shower.
BBC Radio Nottingham, March 2019. Music picks.
BBC Radio Nottingham, February 2019. This month in space science, and live science Q&As.
BBC Radio Bristol, March 2020. The expanding universe.
BBC Radio Nottingham, October 2019. Review of the newspapers.
BBC Radio Leeds, July 2019. Lunar Eclipse, Neil Armstrong, and the Future of Space Exploration.
BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. Should we spend money on travelling to the Moon?
BBC Radio Solent, July 2019. The Big Bang and Nucleosynthesis.
BBC Radio Bristol, July 2019. Jodrell Bank, Sir Bernard Lovell, and radio astronomy.
BBC Radio Leeds, April 2019. Images of a black hole!
BBC Radio Leeds, March 2019. Live from Houston, Texas.
BBC Radio Leeds, February 2019. Is it a meteorite!?
BBC Radio Bristol, February 2019. Happy Hour.
BBC Radio Bristol, January 2019. Two Songs I Love.
BBC Radio Bristol, January 2019. China’s Moon Mission.
BBC Radio Leeds, December 2018. One-hour programme about the “year in space”.
BBC Radio Bristol, December 2018. The Geminid Meteor Shower.
BBC Radio Bristol, November 2018. NASA’s InSight Mission, and the future of Martian exploration.
BBC Radio Leeds, November 2018. NASA’s InSight Mission.
BBC Radio 4 (Saturday Morning Live), November 2018. Meteor showers.
BBC Radio Bristol, September 2018. The Sky at Night and meteorites.
BBC Radio Leeds, August 2018. The hole in the ISS, and really fast space rocks.
BBC Radio Leeds, July 2018. The Perseids Meteor Shower.
BBC Radio Leeds, June 2018. Blood Moon.
BBC Radio Leeds, November 2017. All things "astronauts".
BBC Radio Bristol, August 2017. Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?
BBC Radio Leeds, August 2017. Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes?
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