BBC Birmingham Sundays at 9.00am for half an hour. The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example "The Brothers" starring Jean Anderson, the children's programmes, "Play School" and "Jackanory", and the current affairs programme Nationwide during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness. Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and filmed at the "Pebble Mill Studios" which included the children's programme The "Basil Brush" show. A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was snooker programme "Pot
Michael Barratt (astronaut) NASA Johnson Space Center, researching the health and performance risks associated with long duration human spaceflight and mitigating them. As of 2018, Barratt is involved with the human missions to Mars, and dealing with the health risks of the spaceflight to Mars, especially the risks from cosmic radiation. Aerospace Medical Association; American College of Physicians; Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society; American Institute for the Advancement of Science. Barratt has received several awards and honors: Michael Barratt (astronaut) Michael Reed Barratt (born April 16, 1959) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Specializing in aerospace medicine, he served as