Carl Sagan: A Personal Voyage

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Brian Cox presents a tribute to Cosmos presenter and astronomer Carl Sagan, who is often thought to have been the greatest influence over the popularisation of science. Over 600 million people worldwide watched the 1980s television programme

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Summer 1981, and a 13-year-old Brian Cox spends Wednesday evenings watching the man he calls “the greatest scientific communicator who ever lived” — Carl Sagan — present his landmark series, Cosmos. Sagan opened Cox’s eyes to an infinite universe of wonders, and was the inspiration for his subsequent career.

This programme first aired on Radio 4 in 2009 and is now repeated to mark 90 years since Sagan’s birth in November 1934 (he died in 1996). One of the most fascinating contributors is Ann Druyan, who co-wrote Cosmos with Sagan and married him the following year. But the real highlights are archive extracts from the man himself, whose words remain prescient to this day: “For the first time we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves.”

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