hipsterfun
I’m going to give JAK some credit and suggest his incredulity was somewhat faux.
You may well be right. They will have rehearsed the interview so it won't have come as a total surprise to him. On the other hand he is too young to remember quite how awful things were in the '60s so he doesn't have to pretend to be shocked at it when he hears her spelling it out like that. Even if it's not the first time. Looking back on it, hearing her calm and steely tone, I'm shocked too.
Dame Jocelyn is indeed amazing. Yes, as a PhD student she discovered pulsars - through sheer alertness, doggedness and application of her extraordinary mind. And in the face of initial pooh-poohing. And yes, years later she donated the whole of her 2018 £2.3m Special Breakthrough Prize money to help women, ethnic minority, and refugee students become physics researchers.
If she ever felt any rancour at being left out of the Nobel nomination she keeps it well to herself though her supervisor condemned himself out of his own mouth in that clip they played. The wikipedia page on her is worth a look and there's plenty more about her online.
I'm a bit of a fan of JAK, seems like a top bloke. Leading humanist. Now if only we could get him onside... Ain't going to happen though, at least publicly, as long as he's a BBC presenter.