So last night I had the pleasure of presenting The Sounds of Space on Brighton Festival Radio. I had a fantastic time – for two and a half hours I played out tracks from Mozart to Stravinsky, and Chuck Berry to Javanese gamelan, all in the amazing setting of the Brighton Dome.

I’ll be uploading the whole show for you to have a listen to later, but as a special treat I thought I’d upload my interview with the one and only Professor Brian Cox. The star of Wonders of the Solar System and all round clever chap gave me a rather lovely interview – we got into the Voyager Golden Record, the possibilities of encountering intelligent life in our lifetimes, and much more sciencey goodness as well.

If you can’t see the player, click here to listen: Interview with Professor Brian Cox by markhiggins

Huge thanks must go to Shaun W Keaveny for making the interview happen – I owe him and Coxy a curry now, which should be an interesting evening! Cheers for everyone that tuned in as well, it very encouraging to know so many of you were listening to my first ever radio show.

I should be presenting some more shows for Brighton Festival Radio in the next few weeks – keep checking here and on my Twitter for further details.