The week in radio: Moon; The Dying of the Ice; Cold War in Full Swing and more

Radio 4 recreated the moon landing and explored ice instruments, while Radio 3 celebrated Louis Armstrong’s 1965 GDR tour Moon (BBC Radio 4) | iPlayer The D ying of the Ice (BBC Radio 4) | iPlayer Louis Armstrong: Cold War in Full Swing (Radio 3 | iPlayer Free Thinking: Camille Paglia (BBC Radio 3) | iPlayer When I interviewed astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon, he recalled the wondrous moments he had witnessed – an Earthrise, his own footprints on the lunar surface – but also the dogged, meticulous schedule the crew were tied to for most of the voyage. Radio 4’s five-part series Moon deftly caught that mixture of the extraordinary and the routine through a reconstruction of the Apollo 11 mission that used the actual words of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, taken from Nasa transcripts. Continue reading...