Moon Night

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

Moon Night: Chapter 5. Waning Crescent

5. Waning Crescent

Chapter 5. Waning Crescent

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Kevin Fong delves through the BBC Archive to explore our fascination with the moon. In this chapter The Rev Richard Coles hears moonlit ice music and there's drama with Bill Nighy.

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 5: Waning Crescent programmes include;

- The Music That Melted - Richard Coles hears musicians gather under the full moon in Norway to make ice music. 
- Re: The Moon - by Ross Sutherland, first heard in Short Cuts - Moonlight.
- I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse - Bill Nighy stars in Duncan Macmillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband who falls back in love with her.

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