13 Minutes to the Moon
BBC World Service
13 Minutes to the Moon
BBC World Service
Jeudi 16 Avril 2020 : Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. This extended interview ranges from John first learning about the...
Mardi 14 Avril 2020 : Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview. The true space pioneer talks to Kevin Fong about everything from...
Dimanche 12 Avril 2020 : The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim...
Samedi 11 Avril 2020 : Producer Andrew Luck-Baker explains why the season finale will be delayed.
Dimanche 05 Avril 2020 : “We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew. Mission control must improvise as the most...
Dimanche 29 Mars 2020 : Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little...
Lundi 23 Mars 2020 : The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escape to the lunar lander. It's a desperate act of...
Lundi 16 Mars 2020 : “We were in deep, deep trouble.” This is Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before. After the explosion, denial and disbelief...
Lundi 09 Mars 2020 : “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why Nasa’s third bid to land on...
Mercredi 19 Février 2020 : Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on...
Lundi 23 Décembre 2019 : Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. The Oscar and Grammy-winning composer talks music,...
Lundi 23 Décembre 2019 : Hear the full theme music from 13 Minutes to the Moon. By Hans Zimmer and produced and arranged by Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers...
Vendredi 19 Juillet 2019 : “We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his famous Moon speech to rally the US behind the...
Dimanche 14 Juillet 2019 : History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph. Hear how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became...
Dimanche 14 Juillet 2019 : History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through the descent to the Moon from start to finish, using Capcom Charlie Duke’s...
Dimanche 07 Juillet 2019 : We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run...
Dimanche 30 Juin 2019 : The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the Apollo 11...
Dimanche 23 Juin 2019 : Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their...
Dimanche 16 Juin 2019 : War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam...
Dimanche 09 Juin 2019 : The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time...
Dimanche 02 Juin 2019 : "You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful...
Dimanche 26 Mai 2019 : Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth. The story of Grumman’s lunar module, with...
Dimanche 19 Mai 2019 : The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission." An alarm appears on the on-board...
Dimanche 12 Mai 2019 : With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the...
Lundi 29 Avril 2019 : The final part of our audio countdown to the launch of 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Kevin Fong. Lift off is on 13 May 2019.
13 Minutes to the Moon
BBC World Service
S2 Bonus 02: John Aaron
Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. This extended interview ranges from John first learning about the...
S2 Bonus 01: Jim Lovell
Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview. The true space pioneer talks to Kevin Fong about everything from...
S2 Ep.06 Earth in view
The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim...
S2 Delay to Episode 7
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker explains why the season finale will be delayed.
S2 Ep.05 Life support
“We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew. Mission control must improvise as the most...
S2 Ep.04 Power brokers
Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little...
S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat
The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escape to the lunar lander. It's a desperate act of...
S2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey
“We were in deep, deep trouble.” This is Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before. After the explosion, denial and disbelief...
S2 Ep.01 Time bomb: Apollo 13
“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why Nasa’s third bid to land on...
Countdown to Season 2
Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on...
Bonus: The making of the music
Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. The Oscar and Grammy-winning composer talks music,...
Bonus: The music by Hans Zimmer
Hear the full theme music from 13 Minutes to the Moon. By Hans Zimmer and produced and arranged by Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers...
Ep.12 Live from Houston
“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his famous Moon speech to rally the US behind the...
Ep.11 The 13 minutes
History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph. Hear how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became...
Ep.10 ‘For all mankind’
History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through the descent to the Moon from start to finish, using Capcom Charlie Duke’s...
Ep.09 Tranquility Base
We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run...
Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’
The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the Apollo 11...
Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their...
Ep.06 Saving 1968
War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam...
Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time...
Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful...
Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth. The story of Grumman’s lunar module, with...
Ep.02 Kids in control
The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission." An alarm appears on the on-board...
Ep.01 ‘We choose to go’
With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the...
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The final part of our audio countdown to the launch of 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Kevin Fong. Lift off is on 13 May 2019.
