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Adam Walton explores the search for extra-terrestrial life following the recent launch of Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million project to boost science's quest to find signs of alien intelligence in space.


Adam is joined by astrophysicist Dr Chris North of Cardiff University,听who鈥檚 an occasional reporter on 鈥淭he Sky At Night鈥�.

Astrophysicist听Professor Don Pollacco of Warwick University, responsible for听the 鈥淪uperWASP鈥� planet detection experiment, and currently involved in the forthcoming ESA exo-planet missions "CHEOPS" and "PLATO".

Welsh freelance science writer Mark Brake,听author of "The Alien Hunter's Handbook" and听currently on tour with a show called 鈥淗ow To Be a Space Explorer鈥澨�

And astrobiologist听and astrophysicist听Dr Duncan Forgan, of the University of St Andrews, studying star and planet formation, and a member of the UK SETI Research Network.

We also hear from visitors to the Science & Technology Pavilion at the recent National Eisteddfod at Meifod, and their suggestions for messages to send to any aliens 鈥渙ut there鈥� who may be listening. Also, Klara Anna Capova, an anthropologist at Durham University gives her thoughts on the problems of trying to communicate with alien life.