Here I am, a German talking to you in a language that I'm not entirely comfortable with.

When really the language I'm most comfortable with is a worthless language 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. Making the podcast was for us its own journey into the unknown

and we've loved how much you've loved it. 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

Hans Zimmer, whose music was central to the series and which I know you found every bit

as inspirational as we did. Hans is well known for writing soundtracks to blockbuster Hollywood

movies but he'd never before composed for a podcast so I wanted to take a little time to find

out why he'd made this leap into the unknown and what drew him to our project. With the same,

I sent podcast editor John Manel to Hans Zimmer's London studio.

From the BBC World Service, this is 13 minutes to the moon, Hans Zimmer, the making of the music.

Hans, first of all it's absolutely amazing meeting you and thank you so much.

Well, let's see how this goes. You might want to change your mind about it.

No, thank you. Can you describe where we are because this room itself is a piece of art?

Well, I don't know if it's a piece of art but we're in my writing room and we're surrounded by

actually very appropriate pieces of technology. Nubs and dials. Nubs and dials and it's very

Stanley Cooper. And it's very NASA and it's very, I grew up with that stuff.

For me the most important inventor is not the people who built the rockets for NASA but

one Bob Mogue who of course built the greatest synthesizers. Just like the old Saturn rockets

that they used for the Apollo mission, this stuff, it just goes. It just has power. It has

something that you know it's still not matched. You know if you think about any piece of music

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