Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,21 Jul 2011,30 mins

21/07/2011

Material World

Available for over a year

Quentin Cooper hears about the arrival of NASA's Dawn spaceprobe at the asteroid Vesta, the landing of the last Space Shuttle flight, attempts to reduce the number of animals used in scientific research and testing, and, as the two thousandth test match begins, the physics of cricket. Producer: Martin Redfern.

Programme Website
More episodes