Jessa Crispin

The best podcasts to be enjoyed at 4 a.m.

The billionaires rocketing up to space could learn a lot from Tales of the Night Sky, and what happens to the world when everyone's sleeping

The Perseus constellation is the subject of a particularly enjoyable episode of Tales of the Night Sky. Image: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo

Now that all of the billionaires are going into space, the night sky holds a special new kind of allure. We see a little twinkle in the distance and we can think to ourselves, there they are, out there, far away, away from us.

It’s not clear whether Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk spent their childhoods looking up at the stars, fantasising fervently about joining them at some future date, or if they are now just bored.

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