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Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about

You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,

a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear

the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds.

Hello, Alan Davis here, hijacking this feed to take you to alternate realities mapped out by science

with my new podcast for BBC Radio 4, Life Without, where I take a single vital piece of our

world and simply make it vanish. For the next 14 minutes, you'll have a taste of what life is like

when something we take for granted disappears. So, brace yourself as we are going into a life

without the moon. It all started as a messy cosmic fling four and a half billion years ago.

In the heat of the moment, two bodies got a little too close, and one explosive moment later,

they were together, then flung apart, fuming and scorched.

You know how it is.

Everyone ends up getting hurt.

They tried giving each other space, moving apart.

Bit by bit, they drifted farther away.

But they couldn't let go completely.

And the chaos softened into a rhythm of tides and seasons

and a whole life balanced on this awkward, long-distance thing with about 380,000 kilometres between them.

Every month, the moon swings by in full glow and the earth pretends it's not obsessed.

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