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. With Kevin Fong. Starring: Michael Collins Steve Bales Margaret Hamilton Jim Lovell Charlie Duke Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music #13MinutestotheMoon www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes This episode was updated on 14 May 2019.
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.
World, and the popularity of podcasts means we can share what we do with even more people.
So if you like to lose yourself in a gripping audio drama or book.
Find your next listen on BBC sounds.
So I remember when we first started recording the interviews for this podcast.
We'd arrived in the United States, in Florida, on the western side of the Everglades, and I was in a car park of a cheap hotel getting out of the car on a clear night, and I looked up into the sky and I could see the moon there, hanging a quarter of a million miles away.
And I had this thought that the next day would see me interviewing someone who had actually flown there as part of the first mission to land people on the moon.
That person was Michael Collins.
He, along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, completed the Apollo eleven crew.
He'd been keeping watch over them in orbit around the moon as they undertook their attempt at a landing on the surface.
And I was excited about meeting this 88 year old veteran astronaut, but a little nervous, too.
And I spent a somewhat restless night tossing and turning, wondering how the whole thing would go.
Where are you guys coming from?
London, England.