Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Wilderness Tracks // Timber Festival

The space scientist and BBC presenter of The Sky at Night, joins Geoff Bird to discuss her obsession with the moon, viewing the lights of London from Hampstead Heath, her plans to retire to Mars and contemplates the natural beauty of the cosmos. Abandoning the usual six-track format, Maggie chooses eight tracks, from Stevie Wonder to Holst's Mars to Gershwin, in this first episode from the second series of the Wilderness Tracks.
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In the Wilderness Tracks, writers, artists, scientists and thinkers talk with producer Geoff Bird about six pieces of music that somehow connect them to nature.