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Discovery: The Life Scientific: Paul Murdin

Series 1, episode 0

Astronomer Paul Murdin talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his career, which has taken him from the Royal Greenwich Observatory, to the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and the British National Space Centre. Over a long and successful career he has discovered various new and unusual celestial occurrences, including the first successful identification of a black hole, Cygnus X-1