Desert Island Discs- Dara Ó Briain

[markse68]

Dara Ó Briain was on Desert Island Discs this morning and for his luxury item chose an imaging telescope setup. Every time I hear it I hope someone will chose a telescope but an imaging setup doesn’t sound very practical on a desert island! For me it’d be a decent aperture visual scope on an alt-az mount (or big dob) with nice eps, sketch pads and pencils and a decent paper starchart like Interstellarum (and companion guide). No power worries and plenty of time to learn the sky intimately from glorious bortle 1 skies. The prospect excites! 

His choice of the Feynman lectures to read was good though

Mark

[DaveS]

Oh, I don't know. Plenty of sunlight to recharge a solar battery.

[Zermelo]

I listened to this today. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the host was more interested in the standup comedy than the mathematical physics, but it was a good listen.
And I'm guessing that it's the only episode that has ever discussed the Bortle scale.

[bosun21]

My personal choice would be a very reliable boat.