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Radio 4,3 mins

What happens during a solar eclipse?

Radio 4 in Four

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Eclipses have inspired dread and awe since antiquity. Physicist Dr Frank Close explains how the movement of astronomical bodies makes them occur. We also hear people's reaction to an eclipse as it occurred in Indonesia, March 2016. First broadcast on Dark Side of the Sun, 16 August 2016.

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