Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little more than a husk coasting in space. #13MinutestotheMoon Watch videos about the Apollo 13 mission: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring: Gerry Griffin Jim Kelly Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project John Aaron Jim Lovell Fred Haise Dave Reed Jerry Bostick Chuck Deiterich Merlin Merritt Bill Peters Written by Kevin Fong and Mark Rickards Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service
Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you about something else you might enjoy.
My name's Alison Hindl, and I commission audio drama and fiction for the BBC.
It's a great privilege because I get.
To unearth stories people love.
You should see the books and scripts covering my floor from new talent and established writers, as well as classics.
The BBC has such a rich history of making great audio drama.
We're still the largest producer in the.
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We can share what we do with even more people.
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I'm Moira Tigroff, and just before 13.
Minutes to the moon starts, I've been given 13 seconds to tell you about.
My podcast, Death in Ice Valley.
Okay, here goes.
It's about something else that happened in the same year as Apollo 13 in Norway, the discovery of an unidentified body of a woman.
Who was she?
I've been trying to find out.
That's death in Ice Valley.
Apollo 13 is approaching the fourth day of its ill fated flight.