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What has staring down a microscope to do with stargazing?

Surely cell biology and astronomy are about as far removed as you can get in time and space. Light from stars takes millions of years to reach our eyes on earth. What we see through the telescope is already history. Down a microscope we can look inside the here and now, at cells that are measured in millionths of millimetres and events that happened milliseconds ago. And yet our inner and outer worlds can look uncannily similar...

Scopic questions our perception of the world from the far reaches of the universe down to the microcosm of a cell. Listen to the Scopic podcast made at the private view of the Royal Albert Hall exhibition in May 2008