Editing Jodrell Bank Observatory (section)

== Fictional references ==
Jodrell Bank has been mentioned in several works of fiction, including ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', "[[The Poison Sky]]", "[[The Eleventh Hour (Doctor Who)|The Eleventh Hour]]", "[[Spyfall (Doctor Who)|Spyfall]]") and ''Birthday Boy'' by [[David Baddiel]]. It was intended to be a filming location for ''[[Logopolis]]'' ([[Tom Baker]]'s final ''Doctor Who'' serial) but budget restrictions prevented this and another location with a superimposed model of a radio telescope was used instead. It was also mentioned in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''<ref name="hitchhiker">Adams, ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', p. 30–31</ref> (as well as [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' film]]), ''[[The Creeping Terror]]'' and ''[[Meteor (film)|Meteor]]''.

Jodrell Bank was also featured heavily in the 1983 music video "[[Secret Messages (song)|Secret Messages]]" by [[Electric Light Orchestra]] and also "[[Are We Ourselves?]]" by [[The Fixx]]. The [[Prefab Sprout]] song Technique (from debut album Swoon) opens with the line "Her husband works at Jodrell Bank/He's home late in the morning".

The observatory is the site of several episodes in the novel ''[[Boneland]]'' by the local novelist [[Alan Garner]] (2012), and the central character, Colin Whisterfield, is an astrophysicist on its staff.

Jodrell bank made an appearance in the CBBC series ''[[Bitsa]]''.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}