To mark the 150th anniversary year of the Richard Carrington solar flare, astronomy broadcaster Ben Emmett invited me onto the Astronomy Ireland radio programme.  Transmitted every week on Dublin City FM 103.2, the programme can also be accessed via the Internet here.  To download the 20th October programme and hear me talk about The Sun Kings, click here.  You will also hear me give a sneak preview of my next book Big Questions: Universe, due for release in the UK July 2010 by Quercus Publishing, and autumn/winter in the US from Barnes and Noble.  Stay tuned for more news!