My radio documentary on Galileo and the history of the telescope, "Looking Up," airs this month on Ideas on CBC Radio One.

Part One -- Monday Oct. 12 at 9:05 p.m.
Part Two -- Monday Oct. 19 at 9:05 p.m.

I profile Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno in the new issue of The Walrus. Consolmagno, a Jesuit Brother, studies the skies from a mountaintop observatory in Arizona – and sees no conflict between science and faith...

Read the full article.

I discuss the nature of time with Alok Jha of The Guardian on the newspaper's "Science Weekly" podcast, and also in an audio slide show on the Guardian's website.

I explore the problem of time travel in this 10-minute audio Podcast produced for my U.K. publisher, the National Maritime Museum. Time travel is also the subject of Chapter 8 in my latest book, In Search of Time.

My radio documentary, "Living on Oxford Time," has won a Silver World Medal at the New York Festivals for Radio Programming. The hour-long program first aired on CBC Radio's "Ideas" on May 27, 2008. (This is my second win at the festival; my 2004 documentary, "In the Beginning," won a gold medal.)