Stargazing LIVE: Livesey looks to the stars

I am looking forward to this series as I believe Professor Cox has an amazing ability to demystify a subject which bamboozles most of us. The chance to go to Jodrell Bank and to see the work for themselves must have been fantastic for Helen and Tony and I only wish there could have been a greater impact for Helen to write on the blog apart from "I've stood on that".

Gosh ... all that way from Salford. They'll be making an overnighter to Port Sunlight next.

Knowing 5live and Livesey, I suppose the level of this programme will once again descend to the depths of puerile jokes around a certain planet called Uranus with his team falling about laughing on cue.Oh the hilarity of it all !

Jodrell Bank is well worth seeing; however, I don't remember it saying much of interest - ditto Livesey

So, out of interest, what elements of this 'jolly' fall into the stations News and Sport brief? Another advert for a BBC show then?

I actually heard or could about stand 10 minutes of Livesey last night which provided the listener with some chap informing us of the days financial news accompanied by a ticking background clock, counting down and in which his report had to broadcast inside a minute.Can't wait to hear how the world of astrophysics will be interpretated tonight ? GHU !

It's a car crash radio station. Could only exist within the BBC structure which in effect is largely unaccountable.



Some of the stuff that has been broadcast over/since the holiday is hardly worthy of community radio. When you consider the budgets / attitude of presenters ('London only Derbyshire') makes you think they have a problem?

I have 2 questions, please excuse me if they've already been asked:



1. Can a Black Hole become 'full'?

2. What might happen if a Black Hole should encounter another Black Hole?

I switched off too. Livesey is awful.

The Livesey programme was marred last night by the host making cheap puns and jokes about anything anyone was trying to say seriously, and also his many puerile efforts to make fun of Professor Cox. What has he ever done to Livesey to deserve that sort of behaviour? It was like a school trip. Maggie Philbin was obviously a bit embarrassed by it all. Very, very poor.

You know what you are going to get with 5live,its so predictable .Its like every other presenter wants to do a lamentable stand up comedy routine instead of just straight broadcasting.Its as though they all want to do an off shoot of that abysmal Al Murray show on sundays.I've given up,they find it hard to be serious and the whole listening experience becomes impossible and just downright irritating.Can't wait for the Rajar figures and then the usual spin.

Nicky called Dubai 'Milton Keynes with sand' this morning in the five minutes I listened, which I think is very offensive actually.

Is the Helen Thomas who posted this the same Helen Thomas who used to produce the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2? Could explain alot about the way the show has gone in recent weeks/months.

So glad quite a few people are thinking the same as me with regards to Livesey and the station. Can't wait for the Rajars either! I'm finding the batteries in my radio are lasting a lot longer.

Last nights programme inspired me to poetry..

Eternity

I live because my parents loved

I learnt since whence my Lord I feared

and knowing Him taught me to see

that love will thrive eternally.



My world embraces kin and friends

With love and life which knows no bounds

Far beyond the land of my birth

To every corner of the Earth



All we like ants at work and play

Expand our realms day by day

Revolving round the glorious Sun

A complete orbit since the year began



And we but dust in our galaxy

Of countless stars with their progeny

surrounding a vortex dark, unseen

A mysterious force which rules supreme



But is this the end when they disappear 

Into a black hole which now we fear 

No! they conjoin in spectacular union

And grow in magnitude, reborn in fusion



So are we bound by mortality?

Does the spirit of love reign eternally?

From out of darkness, light is born

The heavens reveal that life goes on!

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House rules must mean you cannot criticise.

.. and it also boils down to the fact that 5Live/bbc really have very little in the way of a sense of humour but we probably already knew that if you are regular listener.

Dreadful phone in this morning - people shouting over each other.