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Radiolab

The Distance of the Moon

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What if the moon were just a jump away? In this short, a beautiful answer to that question from Italo Calvino, read live by Liev Schreiber.

Transcript

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You're listening to Radio Lab.

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Radio Lab.

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Shorts.

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From.

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W. N. Y.

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C.

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C.

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Yes.

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And NPR.

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Hey, I'm Jedda Bumrod.

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I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab. Podcast. And today on. Hey, I'm Jedda Bumrad. I'm Robert Krollwich.

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This is Radio Lab.

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The podcast.

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And today on the podcast, something a little different.

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Yeah, a little while ago, we happened to find ourselves on the stage of Symphony Space, which is a theater in Manhattan in New York City.

0:33.7

And we were doing a show with selected shorts, which is a radio show that's produced out of our

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home station, WNYC, heard all across the country, and they had asked us very generously to

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