🎬BBC South 50 years: Episode 9 Space. A series of 19 mini-features made by BBC South at Southampton in 2011 to celebrate the station's 50 year history.

Episode 9 Space. One of a series of features which celebrate BBC South's 50 years of broadcasting. Tom Hepworth investigates the story of the south's involvement with the space industry and visits Sir Patrick Moore's house in Selsey to look for Britain's first satellite, Prospero.

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