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CELEBRATING OUR ANNIVERSARY WITH ARTHUR C. CLARKE
November 30, 2009
Guests: Arthur C. Clarke
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Planetary Radio is seven years old. We'll celebrate by looking back to our beginnings, with science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke  more »

RAY BRADBURY LOOKS BACK AT APOLLO 11
July 20, 2009
Guests: Ray Bradbury
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The beloved author, poet, dramatist, and visionary Ray Bradbury revisits Planetary Radio to share his memories of the first Moon landing forty years ago this week. Ray also talks about Mars and...  more »

WALL*E AND THE FUTURE OF ROBOTS IN SPACE
July 7, 2008
Guests: Andrew Stanton, Wolfgang Fink
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Can lovable little WALL*E of the new Disney Pixar film help excite young people about space exploration and point the way to the future of robotics? We talk with WALL*E creator Andrew Stanton and...  more »

SIR ARTHUR CLARKE: A TRIBUTE
March 24, 2008
Guests: Arthur C. Clarke, James D. Burke
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You'll hear Arthur's greeting to the future Martians recorded for Visions of Mars, now racing to the Red Planet on the Phoenix...  more »

HONORING RAY BRADBURY, MARS PHOTOGRAPHER
July 23, 2007
Guests: Ray Bradbury, Phil Christensen, Louis Friedman
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The Planetary Society recently sponsored a special benefit performance of Ray Bradbury's hit play, Green Town. Ray was presented with a beautiful image of a spot on Mars he had selected for imaging....  more »

SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR KIM STANLEY ROBINSON SAVES EARTH!
April 23, 2007
Guests: Kim Stanley Robinson
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With "Sixty Days and Counting" multi-award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson has finished his trilogy of novels about cataclysmic global climate change and how science and government might be able...  more »

THE SPIRITUALITY OF SCIENCE: ANN DRUYAN ON A NEW COLLECTION OF CARL SAGAN LECTURES
November 6, 2006
Guests: Ann Druyan
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Though he passed away 10 years ago, new works by planetary scientist and science communicator Carl Sagan continue to appear. His widow and longtime collaborator, Ann Druyan, has edited a series of...  more »

BEAM UP TO THE STAR TREK 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION IN LAS VEGAS
September 18, 2006
Guests: Robert Picardo, Rod Roddenberry, Mike Okuda
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We go where no space show has gone before! Mat Kaplan spent two days at the official Star Trek convention. You'll hear Trek star Bob Picardo, Rod Roddenberry, Mike and Denise Okuda on the upcoming...  more »

PUTTING THE UNIVERSE ON CANVAS WITH ASTRONOMICAL ARTIST DON DIXON
July 24, 2006
Guests: Don Dixon
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We visit with famed space artist Don Dixon in his southern California home. Before listening, check out his work. What's Up with Bruce...  more »

TOURING THE PLANETS WITH DAVA SOBEL
October 31, 2005
Guests: Dava Sobel
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Dava Sobel has just written The Planets. Not a drop of water on Jupiter's moon Io in Q and A, space headlines, and Mars comes close.  more »