{"id":2909,"date":"2011-04-08T11:56:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2011\/04\/yuri_gagarin\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:56:38","slug":"yuri_gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/yuri_gagarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Gagarin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12th it will have been 50 years since Russian cosmonaut <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yuri_Gagarin\">Yuri Gagarin<\/a> became the first man in outer space.<br \/>\nThere are a fair few programmes coming up devoted to this anniversary, so I thought I&#8217;d link to a few.<br \/>\nFirst of all, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/mar\/13\/yuri-gagarin-first-space-korolev\">a great piece<\/a> from Robin McKie in The Observer a few weeks ago, that talks about Sergei Korolev, the man who got him into space.<br \/>\nThe BBC World Service has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2011\/04_april\/07\/worlds.shtml\">a programme on Monday<\/a> celebrating the anniversary. With any luck, that will be available in podcast form afterwards.<br \/>\nOn Radio 4, there&#8217;s already a programme called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00zzz2d\/The_Communist_Cosmos\/\">The Communist Cosmos<\/a> broadcast a couple of days ago. And next Tuesday, there&#8217;s a play telling Gagarin&#8217;s story from the point of view of his training partner &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01061ht\">Titanium<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe whole of Sunday evening is a space night on BBC Four. But the highlight must be a new Storyville &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0109ccb\">Knocking On Heaven&#8217;s Door<\/a> &#8211; which gives the background of the Soviet space programme.<br \/>\nThat programme also featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b0100mxw\/Night_Waves_Simon_BaronCohen_Soviet_Space_Programme_Women_War_Artists\/\">Night Waves<\/a> on Radio 3 last night.<br \/>\nFinally, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-12993533\">a lovely story<\/a> on the BBC News site detailing Gagarin&#8217;s trip to Britain, including a memorable detour to Manchester. Watch the accompanying videos.<br \/>\nHave I missed any programmes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12th it will have been 50 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space. There are a fair few programmes coming up devoted to this anniversary, so I thought I&#8217;d link to a few. First of all, here&#8217;s a great piece from Robin McKie in The Observer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}