Moon Night

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Kevin Fong brings you a night of programmes exploring our fascination with the moon.

Moon Night: Chapter 1. Waxing Crescent

1. Waxing Crescent

Chapter 1. Waxing Crescent

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To mark the full moon, Kevin Fong delves through the BBC Archive to bring you a night of programmes exploring our fascination with the moon.

It sits around 240, 000 miles away from earth, yet it dominates our night sky, moves our oceans and has been a source of cultural and artistic wonder for thousands of years. 

Across this full moon night, Kevin Fong takes a journey through the BBC Archive for a long look at our relationship with the moon. 

Programmes include a lunar adventure with Jarvis Cocker, a study of werewolves with Mark Radcliffe, Helen Sharman hears from those who have stood on the moon itself, and Bill Nighy stars in a drama about how love and the moon could destroy the world. 

Going through the night, from 10pm until 5am, join Kevin Fong for a unique night of radio adventures, taking you all the way to the moon and back.  

In Chapter 1: Waxing Crescent programmes include;

- Jarvis Cocker's Wireless Nights: Full Moon
- Soul Music - Harvest Moon. How Neil Young's 1992 song, about growing old and enduring love, still has an impact on listeners today. From 2020.

Plus; Rutherford and Fry find out how the moon formed, and we ask the astronomer Patricia Skelton to explain where our names for Full Moons derive from.

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