One Small Step: A BBC Moon Landing Collection



Links  After yesterday's BBC 100 post which included material about how the BBC covered Apollo 11, I thought it would be useful to create a list of programmes from the corporation about the lunar landings in general and what better source than the contents of a boxset of programmes released by Penguin Books which is otherwise retailing for £25.  Instead, here are links to the same programmes on BBC Sounds:


Part 1: The Moon Landings


"With unique archive recordings, Buzz Aldrin relives the dangerous moments of the final descent in the first ever moon landing."

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister remembers astronaut Neil Armstrong, organist Carlo Curley, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and comedian Phyllis Diller.

"To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration."

"The story of the first mission which took human beings beyond the earth's orbit and which led the way to a landing on the moon."


Part 2: Legacy


"James Burke, the key voice for the BBC coverage of the moon landings in 1969, revisits the momentous event in front of a live audience."

Stargazing: A Moon Landing Special
[Not available - looks like an audio version of this television programme]

"Forty years on from the first moon landing, Richard Hollingham examines British plans to return with a mission called MoonLITE."

"Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by a panel, every member of which has been in space."


Part 3: Why The Moon?


"Mike Williams explores the moon in culture, how it affects life on Earth and he asks Alan Bean – one of the handful of people who have walked on it – what the moon is really like."

"Where does the Moon come from? Are we going back? And, as the Moon's commercial prospects are considered, who controls conservation of our only natural satellite?"

"Rajan Datar and guests contemplate the Moon, and ask how human understanding of what it is and what it means has changed over time."


Part 4: The Future


"Pennie Latin looks at the race to return to the moon, hearing from people who have orbited the moon and those who are planning to return to it to form a human colony."

"Documentary looking at the concept of growing plants in space. With plans to revisit the Moon and even Mars, the prospect is an enticing one, but how could plants survive?"

"Fifty years after the historic moon landing, what's the current state of space exploration?"

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