Proms Plus: Moon Landing
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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As the Proms marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings, Professor Richard Wiseman, author of ‘Shoot For The Moon’ and Melanie Vandenbrouck the lead curator of the Moon exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich join Rana Mitter to discuss the legacy of the Apollo 11 mission. Producer: Zahid Warley
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| 0:32.8 | the BBC Arts and Ideas podcast. The conversation you're about to hear picks up on themes inspired by the summer's BBC proms concerts. |
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| 1:00.0 | Today, half a century ago, Neil Armstrong clambered out of the lunar module Eagle |
| 1:09.0 | and made a small step for a man and a giant one for mankind. |
| 1:13.3 | And even at this distance in time, it seems improbable, fantastical as an event. |
| 1:18.7 | And from an early age, it captured the imagination of my guests today. |
| 1:21.9 | Dr. Melanie Vandenbrook is the lead curator of the Moon exhibition that's just opened at the National Maritime Museum |
| 1:27.8 | in Greenwich. And the psychologist, Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire, |
| 1:32.4 | has recently published Shoot for the Moon, a study of the mindset that powered Apollo 11 back in |
| 1:38.3 | 1969. Melanie and Richard welcome. Now, I have to confess, I was actually born after the moon landing |
| 1:43.7 | itself, |
| 1:44.7 | but I do remember seeing footage of it on children's television back in the 1970s, |
| 1:49.6 | held by the BBC's splendidly white-haired space correspondent, Reg Turnell. Anyone here remember |
| 1:56.1 | Reg Turnil? Ah, how quickly they forget. Well, I think you were both little too young and in case of Melanie |
| 2:02.4 | perhaps in a different country to remember the actual moon landing itself. So when did you first |
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