Friday, 3 May 2024

Moon Night: Chapter 5. Waning Crescent


MOON NIGHT: CHAPTER 5. WANING CRESCENT (320kbs-m4a/204mb/1hr29mins)

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 5: Waning Crescent programmes include;

- The Music That Melted - Richard Coles hears musicians gather under the full moon in Norway to make ice music.
- Re: The Moon - by Ross Sutherland, first heard in Short Cuts - Moonlight.
- I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse - Bill Nighy stars in Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.

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