Aired Wednesday August 11,
10:50pm - 11:50pmon BBC Four HD
Timeshift
Series 15 Episode 6: How Britain Won The Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell BankThe unlikely story of how one man with some ex-WWII army equipment eventually turned a muddy field in Cheshire into a key site in the space race. That man was Bernard Lovell, and his telescope at Jodrell Bank would be used at the height of the Cold War by both the Americans and the Russians to track their competing spacecraft.
- Category
- Documentary / History
- Original air date
- 2015-11-16
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