Louisa Preston's guest appearances

Louisa Preston

Food Non-Fiction

Micropod

Benjamin Franklin

Temple Grandin

Andy Weir

Chris Hadfield

Robin Ince

Betty Crocker

Chris Patil

Adam Rutherford

Lewis Dartnell

Anne Glover

Ron Cutler

OwlTail

In this podcast episode of Food Non-Fiction, we continue our discussion of Space Food from part 1. This episode features Dr. Louisa Preston, an astrobiologist who discusses with us how realistic the book/movie The Martian was in depicting the growth of potatoes on Mars. We also talk to Chris Patil who is part of the Mars One mission that is hoping to send human colonists to Mars. Finally, we finish our interview with astronaut Chris Hadfield who reveals his favourite space food. Thanks to our guests Chris Hadfield, Dr. Louisa Preston and Chris Patil for the insightful interviews. Thanks to Looperman artists for the music: 140BPM Acoustic Guitar by ferryterry HiGuitar by EpicRecord Going up by LarsM

In this podcast episode of Food Non-Fiction, we continue our discussion of Space Food from part 1. This episode features Dr. Louisa Preston, an astrobiologist who discusses with us how realistic the book/movie The Martian was in depicting the growth of potatoes on Mars. We also talk to Chris Patil who is part of the Mars One mission that is hoping to send human colonists to Mars. Finally, we finish our interview with astronaut Chris Hadfield who reveals his favourite space food. Thanks to our guests Chris Hadfield, Dr. Louisa Preston and Chris Patil for the insightful interviews. Thanks to Looperman artists for the music: 140BPM Acoustic Guitar by ferryterry HiGuitar by EpicRecord Going up by LarsM

#28 Space Food Part 2 - Chris Hadfield, Dr. Louisa Preston, Chris Patil

This month's Micropod looks at the possibility of microbial life in space. Dr Louisa Preston talks about extremophiles (or extreme-lovers as she calls them) which live in hostile environments on earth. These places are extremely hot, acidic, cold, alkaline and can be used as potential analogues for other-worldly environments. Then we hear from BBC Horizon star, Dr Lewis Dartnell, who chats about the Mars Curiosity Rover that's due to land on the red planet on 6 August 2012. He tells us about his use of Raman spectroscopy to look for organic molecules and microbes, as well as the ExoMars rover that will fly this instrument to Mars. Look out for more on Astrobiology in the September issue of Microbiologist.

Micropod Episode 2 - Lewis Dartnell and Louisa Preston