Last Photos - The Dish

[den]

210 feet across, 1000 tons over the azimuth track. In 1969 it was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. But what's it doing in a sheep paddock?

Comments

[jamesb]

You can stop squinting ... It's not there.



The secondary commentary track on the R4 DVD goes into detail on the props, and talks about things like the cups and the dresses.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

ah, I must admit, I haven't listened to the commentary - my dvd causes problems when it is played - the stupid disk gets stuck in the machine 9 times out of 10, and I have to physically turn the machine upside down to get it out again.

once, even that wasn't enough, and I had to take the dvd player apart - whereon I discovered that for the entire time I'd had it, since it had left the factory, it had had a test dvd stuck in it, displaced somehow and just "resting" on top of the machinery towards the back. naturally it was scuffed and scratched and unplayable by the time I retrieved it. I hoped when I removed that, that my Dish dvd wouldn't stick, but alas it still does. and even does so in my second dvd player, a more recent model.