Maggie Aderin

Amid a chaotic childhood of 13 schools, The Sky at Night host Dame Maggie Aderin’s Clangers-inspired dream to go to space did not fade. The only Black woman on her physics course at Imperial, her groundbreaking work - including the James Webb and Gemini telescopes - earned her the British Science Institute presidency, an Institute of Physics Gold Medal and a Barbie in her likeness! She returns to Henley with Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky, sharing her lifelong love of the Universe’s wonders.