13 Minutes to the Moon: Bonus - The making of the music

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Hans Zimmer reveals how he crafted the iconic 13 Minutes to the Moon theme. In this special episode, Zimmer reflects on the art of storytelling, his creative process, and the power of music to capture the wonder of space, sharing why this marks his first-ever score for a podcast.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music.

#13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes

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0:00.0	Get closer to the action with live commentary from the world's greatest sporting events on BBC Sounds.
0:06.0	It is all over!
0:08.0	Bulls are an edge, caught behind.
0:10.0	Including cricket Super League, Women's Euro's 2025, Wimbledon, Formula One and much more.
0:17.0	It's all right to the lights and foot to the floor.
0:20.0	Oh, what's's done it!
0:21.4	Drop shots!
0:23.0	Winner!
0:23.7	On five sports extra, sports extra two and sports extra three.
0:27.7	Listen, only on BBC Sounds. Here I am a German talking to you in a language that I'm not entirely comfortable with,
0:45.2	when really the language I'm most comfortable with is a wordless language which is music.
1:23.4	Yeah. which is music. ... Hello, I'm Kevin Fong, and I'm back with a little treat for all of you who enjoyed listening to 13 minutes to the moon.
1:31.3	Making the podcast was for us its own journey into the unknown, and we've loved how much you've loved it.
1:46.1	We were extremely lucky to be joined along the way by a very special team member, the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning composer Hun Zimmer, whose music was central to the series and which I know you found every bit as inspirational as we did.
1:52.2	Hans is well known for writing soundtracks to blockbuster Hollywood movies, but he'd never
1:57.1	before composed for a podcast.
1:59.5	So I wanted to take a little time to find out
2:01.9	why he'd made this leap into the unknown, and what drew him to our project.
2:07.4	With this aim, I sent podcast editor John Manel to Hunzimmer's London studio.
2:16.6	From the BBC World Service, This is 13 minutes to the moon.
2:21.9	Hans Zimmer, the thank you so much.
2:47.7	Well, let's see how this goes.
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