Protecting the Moon
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
India's successful moon landing has the Unexpected Elements team engaging in some serious lunacy. We look at where the moon even came from, how it helps us navigate, and whether it has a cultural and ecological heritage.
Also on the show, is Dr. TikTok leading to a raft of self-diagnoses, should we be eating banana peels and worms, and we go back to the moon to see if it has any effect on our sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.7 | The captain, you know, he went on the radio and he's like, we just want to make sure everyone knows he has a Paralympic champion on the plane. On the podium is back with more Olympians and Paralympians sharing their remarkable stories. On the podium, listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 1:02.0 | My friend Ross Sutherland teaches poetry classes. |
| 1:06.3 | Schools, prisons, anywhere with a captive audience, really. |
| 1:07.1 | Joke. |
| 1:14.1 | And in his first lesson, he always gets them to describe the moon. It sounds like a subject rich in cliche, but in a way, that lets novice poets off the hook. We've had so many centuries |
| 1:20.8 | of writing about the moon that it kind of sucks in any metaphor you want to chuck at it. |
| 1:26.8 | Ross calls it a kind of literary gravity. |
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