Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

Hi, I'm Andrew Lockbaker, the series producer of 13 Minutes to the Moon. This is one of two

bonus episodes for you, released in the week of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13. It's an edited

version of the conversation that Kevin and I recorded with the legend that is Captain Jim Lovell, commander of that mission.

We had the great privilege of interviewing him over two mornings at the community library near his home north of Chicago.

Now, we knew we were going to get some great storytelling because we'd

interviewed Jim about his first flight around the moon on Apollo 8 for season one. But I'd forgotten

about his sense of humour and the love or laugh, which rings out not infrequently between

Jim's tales of danger after danger and threat after threat.

Anyway, I've stitched the recordings from the two mornings into one piece.

It covers a lot of ground from the traumatic moment of the explosion

to the enormous relief at Splashdown.

We're going to start this just before the explosion happens.

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