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  1. Episode 4

    4/4 Monica Grady, space scientist at the Open University, discusses how Sputnik gave her a job

  2. A Beep Heard Around the World

    3/4 News of Sputnik and rock and roll arrived together in South Africa for Christopher Hope.

  3. A Beep Heard Around the World

    2/4 Zinovy Zinik tried to escape his playground by leaping up to hitch a lift on Sputnik.

  4. A Beep Heard Around the World

    1/4 Sputnik 1 launched and modernity was born in the mind of Barnsley schoolboy Ian McMillan.