Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,18 Jul 2014,12 mins

Available for over a year

The moon has fascinated humans everywhere and for all time. Why? Mike Williams explores the moon in culture, how it affects life on Earth and he asks Alan Bean – one of the handful of people who have walked on it – what the moon is really like. Producer: Richard Knight (Image shows a full moon as seen from the sky at night. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Programme Website
More episodes