The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #7

27th April 2024

The seven edition of The Great Geordie Space Race was broadcast on Friday 26th April 2024 at 1800 hours BST.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : Ultravox, Brilliant
News : North American Solar Eclipse, P/14P Pons-Brookes, Voyager
Music : Voyager, Promise
Review : North Tyneside Solar Trail
Music : Japan, European Son
Review : Space Investigators @ The Great North Museum:
Commentary : Falling Objects, Chris Cross Obituary
Music : Ultravox, Satellite

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #6

11th March 2024

The sixth edition of The Great Geordie Space Race will be broadcast on Tuesday 12th March 2024 at 1800 hours BST.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : EurasianEyes, Far off Land
A new comet, P/14P Pons-Brookes
Music : rote8, Solar Eclipse
North Tyneside Solar Trail & Voyager #1 woes
Music : Ian Boddy, Beyond the Event Horizon
Space Investigators @ The Great North Museum: Orion
Music : rote8, Sedatio
The Sun is very active...
Music : Babylon Zoo, Spaceman
The Search of Techno-signatures
Music : Nigel Stanford, One Hundred Hunters

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #5

2nd February 2024

The fifth edition of The Great Geordie Space Race was broadcast on Friday 2nd February 2024 at 1800 hours BST.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : A Flock of Seagulls, Space Age Love Song
Peregrine Lander
Music : Hans Zimmer & Alan Walker, Time (Official Remix)
Ingenuity Helicopter
Music : David Bowie & The Pet Shop Boys, Hallo Spaceboy
Constellations : Orion
Music : David Bowie, The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Astronomy Night with the Freemen of Newcastle
Music : Foo Fighters, February Stars
Osiris Rex comes home
Music : Moby, We Are All Made Of Stars

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #4

24th November 2023

The fourth edition of The Great Geordie Space Race was broadcast on Friday 24th November 2023 at 1800 hours BST.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : Aha, The Sun Always Shines On TV
Starship updates
Music : Venus Hum, Soul Sloshing
Euclid Space Telescope
Music : Nigel Stanford, Cymatics
The Planets : , Jupiter
Music : John Foxx, A Falling Star
Aurora
Starship Launch, analysis
Music : Duran Duran, Planet Earth

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #3

8th September 2023

The third edition of The Great Geordie Space Race was broadcast on Friday 8th September 2023 at 1800 hours BST. The theme of tonight's programme is The Moon.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : Frank, Fly me to the Moon
Welcome to The Moon
Music : The Police, Walking on the Moon
The Moon, Origins
Music : Ultravox, Moon Madness
The Moon, What does the Moon taste like?
Music : OMD, The Moon and the Sun
The Moon, as a Calendar
Music : Tangerine Dream, Dancing on a White Moon
The Moon, Exploration
Music : Duran Duran, New Moon on Monday
Earth's Other Moons
Music : Tangerine Dream, Moon River (cover)

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #2

4th August 2023

The second edition of The Great Geordie Space Race was broadcast on Tuesday 2nd August 2023 at 2200 hours BST. The theme of tonight's programme is Meteors.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : The Church, Under the Milky Way
Welcome to The Perseid Meteor Shower
Music : Ultravox, Satellite
Alexander Herschel, the Meteor Man
Music : Tenek, Sunlight (Instrumental version)
The Boomerang Meteor
Music : Thomas Dolby, Europa and the Pirate Twins
Revelations, The US government's secret stash of UFO hardware
Music : Ultravox, There goes a beautiful world
The Dart Mission
Music : Churches, Night Sky

Running time : 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours

You can contact the show via our Facebook page here

The Great Geordie Space Race: Prog #1

27th June 2023

The first edition of The Great Geordie Space Race will be broadcast on Tuesday June 27th 2023 at 2200 hours BST. There will be multiple repeat broadcasts throughout the week (and the following month) so if you miss it there will be plenty of other opportunities to catch the show.

The running order looks like this:

Introduction
Music : Motorhead, Heroes (David Bowie cover)
Welcome to The Great Geordie Space Race
Music : Tunnel Club, Moon Road
What’s in the sky tonight?
Music : David Bowie, I took a ride on a Gemini Space Ship
Question Time : Is it a UFO?
Music : Pet Shop Boys / David Bowie, Hello Space Boy
Question Time : Are we alone in the Universe, with Dave Newton
Music : A Flock of Seagulls, Space Age Love Song
Battlesteads Observatory, with Roy Alexander
Music : David Bowie, Space Oddity

Running time 59 minutes

Repeat broadcasts will appear as follows:
Tuesday @ 2200 hours
Wednesday @ 2200 hours
Friday @ 1800 hours
Sunday @ 2200 hours