In conversation with the tenth person to walk on the moon #128

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Frankel presents a different sort of podcast this week – he talks for an hour with Charlie Duke, one of only four people alive today who knows what it's like to walk on the moon. This is an extraordinary conversation with a truly remarkable man. Dan and Andrew will be back with a more conventional car podcast next week.

Read Andrew's two-part feature about Charlie Duke on The Intercooler website. The best writers, the finest stories and no ads, all on The Intercooler’s beautiful website. Visit www.the-intercooler.com.

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0:23.0	The Open University, the future is open. Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:37.0	The Intercooler Podcast. the Hello everybody and welcome to episode 128 of the Intercooler podcast as you can probably tell by the fact that it is my that is Andrew's voice talking to you at the moment
1:00.0	this is not going to be a normal podcast.
1:03.0	It's going to be a very, very special one.
1:05.0	It's not just going to be myself and Dan talking to you about whatever it is we've dreamt up this week.
1:10.0	It is going to be the full unexpigated interview that I did with a chap called Charlie Duke.
1:15.6	Now, if you are a subscriber to the Intercooler website or app, and I hope you very much are,
1:21.9	and if you're not, please go and take a look at the
1:24.0	the hyphen intercooler.com and see what that's all about. If you do that already
1:31.6	you will know that frankly one of the greatest privileges of my working life to date
1:37.0	was to have what I thought was going to be quite a short telephone conversation with this man Charlie Duke
1:43.8	turned out to be quite a long conversation. Charlie for those for whom the name
1:48.4	means absolutely nothing because he is not comes from the world of cars is one of four people who can tell you what it is like to walk on the moon.
1:57.4	Only 12 people in history ever did it, and sadly only four of them are left.
2:01.7	Charlie was the lunar module. Sadly, only four of them are left.
2:02.8	Charlie was the Lunar Module Commander on Apollo 16.
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