"I hope some of you listeners out there managed to see the Supermoon last Monday, as the moon was at its closest to earth since 1948. It must have looked spectacular from Cape Town."

"News of failed Mars missions. Eish! Space ain't easy."

"Astronomy too high for humans. You need a head and body for heights to operate telescopes at high altitude, which many are at. It's not for the faint-hearted. Good thing most astronomers stare at computer screens all day analysing data."

It's important to preserve astronomical heritage data - Kechil will tell you why.

"International Observe The Moon Night was last Saturday 8 October but you can observe the lovely Moon any time. This Sunday 16th will be a Full Supermoon, when the moon will be close to the Earth. Come to Signal Hill on Sunday to watch the moonrise with John Richards and I."

"I am now back in South Africa and at Spier where there is a huge meeting of hundreds of engineers from all the way around the world, who are gathering to talk about the construction and design of the Square Kilometre Array - the massive radio astronomy telescope that's going to be built in the Karoo."

"When you hear this broadcast, I will be up in the air somewhere between the surface of planet Earth and space. Space isn’t very far away, at around 100kms, and at 30-off thousand feet it wouldn’t do you much good to suddenly find yourself outside the metal tube, with very little to breathe and sub-zero temperatures."

Repeat Broadcast of 12th August 2016:

"Music and astronomy have had a long relationship. As Pythagoras said: there is geometry in the humming of the strings...there is music in the spacing of the spheres."

Kechil is at Jodrell Bank near Manchester in the UK for a few months. This is a radio astronomy establishment next to an enormous dish. This week Kechil is talking to Jeff Wagg who is the Project Scientist with the The Square Kilometre Array Project.

Kechil is at Jodrell Bank near Manchester in the UK for a few months. This is a radio astronomy establishment next to an enormous dish. This week Kechil is talking to Tim Stevenson who is the Head of Mission Assurance.