Live from The Space Shed Unlimited Space Agency

For this episode we were at New Scientist Live 2019 as their “performance stage”, hosting workshops, talks and interviews with some of the UK’s leading scientists and researchers. One of the (many) highlights was hosting an interview and Q&A with astronaut Al Worden who piloted the Apollo 15 command module to The Moon in 1971.
We’re releasing this episode for International Podcast Day to celebrate Al’s life after he passed away earlier this year. 2020 really hasn’t pulled any punches, eh?
In this episode Al and Jon chat about:
• his astronaut training
• his Guinness World record
• his favourite sci-fi films
• his relationships with other Apollo astronauts
• why at 87 years old he still considered himself the best crew member for a mission to Mars
and he answers questions from the New Scientist Live audience
LINKS
Al’s legacy feed on Twitter @WordenAlfred  
Website alworden.com
The Al Worden “Endeavour” Scholarship
unspaceagency.earth
Credits
Presenter: Jon Spooner
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Ground Crew: Anna Turzyknski, Sarah Readman, Sarah Webb
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb, Javairya Khan for Unlimited
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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For this episode we were on campus at the University of Warwick’s Family Day for the British Science Festival with Maddie Moate - a YouTube filmmaker, BAFTA winning presenter and the host of the BAFTA nominated CBeebies series “Do You Know?”, BBC Earth’s “Earth Unplugged”and CNBC’s technology series “The Cloud Challenge”. Maddie and Jon know each other from the CBeebies Christmas Show that Jon directs and in this episode we chat about:
the CBeebies Christmas show how Maddie started out on YouTube why ‘Curiosity’ is so important Maddie’s favourite episodes of ‘Do You Know’ her travelling adventures across the world elephant poo Maddie also does a live biscuit review and answers questions including:
where do you live? how do you choose what to make episodes of Do You Know about? which factories are your favourites? do you ever get tired? what is your favourite book? what is your favourite planet? what is your favourite giraffe?  
LINKS
Maddie on Instagram @maddiemoate
Maddie on Twitter @maddiemoate
Website maddiemoate.com
 
Credits
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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Jacqueline is currently a professor at Gresham College, University College London and the Maasai Mara University in Kenya where she also lives having married a Maasai chief. Previously chief scientist of the United Nations environment programme and executive director of the European Environment Agency, Jacqueline is passionate about community science and natural prosperity, open data and earth observation. She is one of the most extraordinary humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. In this episode we chat about:
how to get politicians and governments to “do the right thing” her sustainable life with the Maasai Mara in rural Kenya how we can all, like the Maasai Mara, adapt our lives to cope with the effects of climate change and Jacqueline answers questions including:
is climate change going to make humans extinct by 2100 how much rain do you get in the village where you live? what advice would you give to any young people wanting to get involved in fighting climate change? how badly will climate change affect the Earth? how does climate change affect plants? how many trees do we need to plant to stop climate change? should we all go vegan? what can we all do to get governments to ACT on climate change?  
LINKS
Jacqueline on Twitter @jacquelineMcgl8
Jacqueline on Facebook jacqueline.mcglade.1
 
Credits
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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For this episode we’re back in the Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with poet, lawyer, international human rights activist and founding member of Unlimited Theatre Dr Louisa Ashley. In this episode Louisa and Jon chat about:
Louisa’s ‘career journey’ from experimental theatre maker to Head of Law at Leeds Beckett University chocolate’s relationship to climate change “Ecofeminism” and what it is poetry and conflict resolution how art can help us deal with the emotional responses to climate change Louisa also reads some of her poems and answers questions including:
how can chocolate be good for the environment? what is *the* answer? what is going on in Yemen? are there any countries in the world that are shining examples for human rights? LINKS
Louisa on Twitter @LouisaAshley16
 
Credits
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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For this episode we were on campus at the University of Warwick as part of the British Science Festival with lawyer and climate justice activist Harpreet Kaur Paul.
In this episode Harpreet and Jon chat about:
what “climate justice” is what the real effects of climate change are right now how human rights laws can help with fighting climate change why direct action (protest) is important what can we best do as individuals? and answers questions including:
should my school start selling bottled water? how did you get into this line of work? what are the best ways to do “carbon offsetting”?  
LINKS
Harpreet on Twitter @HarpreetKPaul
 
Credits
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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For this episode we were in The Faraway Forest at Latitude Festival with Dr Alice Bell - a climate activist and historian and the co-director of climate charity 10:10 (recently rebranded as Possible).
In this episode Alice and Jon chat about:
the best words to describe the climate crisis/breakdown/emergency why keeping global heating to 1.5degrees is so important why it’s good to talk about how scary this all is what we can all do to combat climate change why individual (as well as collective) action is useful and answers questions including:
do we have to STOP flying entirely? will it get so hot in the UK that we will have to close schools how can we reduce food waste? what is the most important thing that we should all do? is it true that LED lights are bad for you? is it bad for wildlife if we build solar and wind farms in fields? should we do meat free Mondays? should we eat the rich? Alice also came back later that day to DJ a ‘climate inspired’ set. Spotify playlist here: songs for a changing climate - Space Shed edit (67 minutes) and the 200 minute ‘long train journey edit’ is here
 
LINKS
Alice on Twitter @alicebell
1010uk.org
 
Credits
Presenters: Jon Spooner & Mini Jon
Sound Engineer & Editor: Andy Wood
Additional sound design: Elena Pena
Music: Public Service Broadcasting
Producers: Jon Spooner, Alice Massey, Sarah Webb for Unlimited
Consultancy: Storythings
Graphic Design: Lee Goater
The Unlimited Space Agency and The Space Shed are projects of Unlimited Theatre

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