Emily’s grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could another man – Leo Szilard - have stopped it? Search for The Bomb wherever you get your podcasts. Show more

Introducing our new original podcast. Here’s episode 1: Hacking Hollywood. A movie, Kim Jong-un and a cyber-attack. Search for The Lazarus Heist wherever you get your podcasts. Show more

News about the next season and our live episode recording at The Podcast Show 2023 in London. Send us your questions for astronaut Kay Hire: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Show more

The countdown begins. The story of Apollo 11 – coming soon.

Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and former Apollo engineer Poppy Northcutt. Show more

Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It is the first time the Grammy and Academy Award winner has created music for a podcast.

The final part of our audio countdown to the launch of 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Kevin Fong. Lift off is on 13 May 2019.

Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on 9 March.
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13 Minutes to the Moon

With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the very beginning.
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The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the lunar mission." #13MinutestotheMoon Show more

The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”. Show more

We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run out. Show more

“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where JFK made his famous Moon speech. We reflect on one of the greatest achievements in human history. #13MinutestotheMoon Show more

The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have met the people and heard about the technology, now the descent is underway. Show more

Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth.
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"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful manned mission into Earth’s orbit. Show more

War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history, with Apollo 8.
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Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. Michael Collins was in lunar orbit, playing a crucial role. This is his story. Show more

Hear the full theme music from 13 Minutes to the Moon. By Hans Zimmer and produced and arranged by Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music. #13MinutestotheMoon