BS: Do you have to have training for the planetarium.
JC: Yeah, I that's - that's come in quite recently. When I started doing the planetarium I've been here 4 or 5 months - probably less, about 4 months probably. And I'd been in a bit. There was no no trainer so I'd been in with Heather who's now Public Programmes person who was just keen really and she kind of pointed out a few constellations and I was quite interested so I'd read a bit and she said "Oh you'll do a practice on this Sunday" and I got there that Sunday and the supervisor at that particular time said "oh yes, you know how you were doing a trial show" and I said "yes" and he said "well we don't have any other - we've only got one presenter so you'll presenting alongside Parker and you'll just go in and do it." The co-presenter must have had a horrendous day because I wouldn't go in the planetarium without him. So - I - kind of training happened but it didn't really.
And then - I don't know, year year and a half ago it kind of came through that people - because you were getting trained by peers things were going through - and I suppose you were getting Chinese whispers. What one person was saying would go 2 or 3 people and then somebody else would hear it and go "eee that's really - not right." And they started taking it more seriously and wrote up a training plan and nowadays it's fairly formalised. It seems to take - a good couple of months now to get people through. From just using the equipment and recognising constellations and through - and through to doing a sort of basic show with an assessor before they go in with a, with a visitor. Sorry before they go in with visitors as an audience.
It varies a bit with some shows. We've been doing Paw Prints in the Stars which is aimed at very young children and there's no real star- there's no really heavy stars it just a few basic constellations so - you might send somebody in who's not really fully trained because they don't need to be so much. But then to do more adult focused shows they would be - fully trained.