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	Podcast:		Desert Island Discs
	Episode:		Classic Desert Island Discs: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:35:25
	Publish Date:		2019-04-28 06:00:00
	Description:		Another chance to hear Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell choose her Desert Island Discs, with Sue Lawley. First broadcast 24th December, 2000. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was only twenty-four when she made the discovery of a lifetime: As she was mapping the universe for her PhD, she chanced upon the radio signal for a totally new kind of star, known as a 'pulsar'. Her find is seen as one of the most important contributions to astrophysics in the twentieth century.
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