Thursday 2 May 2024

Moon Night: Chapter 4. Waning Gibbous


MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 4. WANING GIBBOUS (320kbs-m4a/213mb/1hr33mins)

BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th March 2024

It sits around 240, 000 miles away from earth, yet it dominates our night sky, moves our oceans and has been a source of cultural and artistic wonder for thousands of years.

Across this full moon night, Kevin Fong takes a journey through the BBC Archive for a long look at our relationship with the moon.

Programmes include a lunar adventure with Jarvis Cocker, a study of werewolves with Mark Radcliffe, Helen Sharman hears from those who have stood on the moon itself, and Bill Nighy stars in a drama about how love and the moon could destroy the world.

Going through the night, from 10pm until 5am, join Kevin Fong for a unique night of radio adventures, taking you all the way to the moon and back.

In Chapter 4: Waning Gibbous programmes include;

- Ticket To The Moon - Patrick Moore tells Peter Scott why we should travel to the moon. From 1956.
- Moonwalk Memoirs - Helen Sharman recalls the Apollo missions with some of the men who left their footprints on the lunar surface.

Plus we hear from Mahesh Anand about the future of lunar exploration, and the amateur astronomer Roger Hutchinson shows us how to get close to the moon.

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