MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 1. WAXING CRESCENT (320kbs-m4a/182mb/1hr19mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th 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 1: Waxing Crescent programmes include;
- Jarvis Cocker's Wireless Nights: Full Moon
- Soul Music - Harvest Moon. How Neil Young's 1992 song, about growing old and enduring love, still has an impact on listeners today. From 2020.
Plus; Rutherford and Fry find out how the moon formed, and we ask the astronomer Patricia Skelton to explain where our names for Full Moons derive from.
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