How did a muddy field in Cheshire become a key site in the space race?
A new documentary on BBC 4 next week will recount that it was  largely down to one man, Bernard Lovell, whose drive and vision were behind the construction of Jodrell Bank, put Britain at the forefront of the emerging science of radio astronomy.
His telescope at Jodrell Bank would be used at the height of the Cold War by both the Americans and the Russians to track their competing spacecraft.

While the telescope would see the development of a new science which transformed our knowledge of space and provided the key to understanding the most mind-bending theory of the beginnings of the universe – the Big Bang.

BBC4 Monday 9.00pm

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