Most interviews were recorded stereophonicly with the intention they be heard on home hi-fidelity stereophonic radio equipment. We recommend you listen to these downloadable audio files in this way. If you choose to listen with headphone or earbuds you may find the left-ear / right-ear effect unpleasant.
| BROADCAST DATE | GUEST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Bob Dyer Area Control Officer Defence Support Centre Woomera | Rocket testing at Woomera. Listen or Download (12 min 55 s - 12.1 MB) |
| January 19 | Neville Byrne Australian Space Office Canberra | Express satellite failure (to have landed at Woomera). |
| January 19 | Jim Gower Institute of Ocean Sciences Sydney Canada | Detection of icebergs using the Seasat and Radarsat radar satellites. Listen or download interview (7 min 21 s - 6.9 MB) |
| January 25 | Bill Barrett Manager of Major Contracts former OTC, now Telstra | Intelsat, Inmarsat, control stations. Listen or download (18 min 48 s - 17.6 MB) |
| March 1 | Ed Roberts Majjor Projects Manager Auspace Canberra | Formation of Auspace, photons and photon detectors, the Endeavour payload. Listen or download (6 min 0 s - 5.6 MB) |
| March 22 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassadors Melbourne | Update on Australian activities in space. |
| March 29 | Bill Priedhorsky Los Alamos Natioanal Laboratory Arizona | New x-ray source found in sky. |
| April 5 | Nick Lomb Curator Sydney Observatory | Observatory building, and how to visit. Listen or Download (5 min 31 s - 5.1 MB) |
| April 26 | Alex Wylie Remote Sensing Applications Centre Perth | Detecting algal blooms from space. Listen or download (3 min 38 s - 3.3 MB) |
| May 3 | Stella Bellis Stephen McNeil Manaka Whenua Landcare Research Lower Hutt New Zealand | Remote sensing in New Zealand. Listen or download (14 min 5 s - 13.2 MB) |
| May 3 | Guillermo Lemarchand University of Buneos Aires Argentina | The Searh for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the Argentine META programme. Listen or download (9 min 18 s - 9.0 MB) |
| May 10 | Don Koulaouzos Marketing Manager Telstra | Inmarsat mobile communications. Listen or Download (8 min 31 s - 7.9 MB) |
| May 24 | Ian Bryce Australian Space Research Institute Sydney | Activities of the Institute. Listen or Download (8 min 44 s - 8.1 MB) |
| May 31 | John Coleman Australian Space Research Institute Melbourne | The Ausroc 2 rocket project. |
| June 7 | Ian Sullivan Astronomical Society of Victoria Melbourne | The historical section of the Society. The future of the Melbourne Observatory in the Botanical Gardens. |
| June 7 | Charlotte Durat Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Moon Journey poem |
| June 21 | Matthew Bailes Australia Telescope Epping | Pulsars - what they are, types, rarity and discovery of millisecond pulsars. Listen or download interview (8 min 20 s - 7.8 MB) |
| June 21 | Jim Gower Institute of Ocean Sciences Sydney Canada | Mapping the seafloor using satellites Listen or download interview (4 min 49 s - 4.5 MB) |
| July 12 | Bill Priedhorsky Los Alamos Natioanal Laboratory Arizona | Alexis x-ray astronomy satellite. Listen or download (16 min 40 s - 15.6 MB) |
| July 19 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassadors Melbourne | Richard presented the show, but no record remains of who the interview subjects were. |
| July 26 | Peter Churchill Director Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Tidbinbilla | Galileo probe separation. Listen or download (6 min 18 s - 5.9 MB) |
| August 2 | Ken McCracken former Director COSSA Canberra | What Australia should do in space How public can influence government policy. Listen or download interview. (13 min 31 s - 12.6 MB) During this interview the battery (six "D" cells) began to run flat, making the recording quality progressively degrade. The final part of the recording was not broadcastable, but can still be heard by the attentive listener. Listen or download final 2 minutes of interview. (1 min 57 s - 1.8 MB) |
| August 9 | Natasha Cherednichenko Supundi Subasinghe Students The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School South Melbourne | Experiences at the Australian International Space School, Sydney and Canberra. |
| August 16 | Rachel Webster Melbourne University Melbourne | Gravitational lensing conference, Dark matter, career in astronomy. |
| August 23 | Jeremy Mould Director Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories | The work of the observatory. Listen or download interview (14 min 12 s - 13.3 MB) |
| September 20 | John Davis Astronomy Department University of Sydney Sydney | Sydney University Stellar Interferometer. Listen or download interview and introduction (10 min 2 s - 9.4 MB) |
| September 27 | Peter Shaver European Southern Observatory La Sila Chile | Tour of the ESO at La Silia, Chile. Listen or download interview (18 min 16 s - 17.1 MB) |
| September 27 | Richard Tonkin Aerospace Ambassadors Melbourne | Moves to organise Australia's space programme. |
| October 4 | Bill Priedhorsky Los Alamos Natioanal Laboratory Arizona | Spectrum-X x-ray astronomy satellite. Listen or download (8 min 3 s - 7.5 MB) |
| October 10 | Jim Gower Institute of Ocean Sciences Sydney Canada | Oceanography from Seasat radar satellite. Listen or download interview (13 min 14 s - 12.4 MB) |
| October 17 | Jean-Pierre Swings Vice President European Southern Observatory Liege Belgium | Gravitational lenses Listen or download interview (4 min 41 s - 4.4 MB) |
| October 25 | Jim Gower Institute of Ocean Sciences Sydney Canada | Canada's Radarsat radar mapping satellite. Listen or download interview (5 min 56 s - 5.5 MB) |
| October 25 | Bernard Burke Professor of Physics Massacheusetts Institute of Technology | Gravitational lensing, the VLA telescope, extrasolar planets. Listen or download interview (12 min 35 s - 11.8 MB) |
| November 15 | Russell Cannon Director Anglo-Australian Observatory Coonabarabran/Epping | Telescopes at the observatory, the new 2dF instrument, infrared astronomy. Listen or download (17 min 3 s - 15.9 MB) |
| November 22 | Taso Tuzicumif Australia Telescope Epping | Powering active galaxies. Listen or download interview (4 min 14 s - 3.9 MB) |
| December 13 | Peter Churchill Director Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Tidbinbilla | Galileo orbiter and probe arrival at Jupiter. Repeat of 1995 July 26 interview Listen or download (6 min 18 s - 5.9 MB) |
| December 13 | Jean-Pierre Swings Vice President European Southern Observatory Liege Belgium | Australian involvemnt in the Very Large Telescope. Listen or download interview (5 min 35 s - 5.2 MB) |
| December 20 | Peter Churchill Director Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Tidbinbilla | Visitors Centre at Tidbinbilla.
Listen or download (7 min 27 s - 6.9 MB) |
N.B. There were many other interviews done live-to-air. These were not noted - its a bit hard to write records when you are trying to read the news, get a telephone call to air, play carts, tapes, CDs, switch microphones, talk to visitors, etc., etc.! This omission means that many Melbourne based guests do not appear in the above table.
