Apollo 11: James Burke on the challenge of broadcasting the Moon landings, live

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Science broadcaster James Burke was called on to be the resident expert on the BBC's TV coverage of the Apollo program - even though, at the beginning, he freely admits he knew nothing about rockets. By the time of the Moon Landings, he had become an expert - but the experience of bringing the Moon Landings to tens of millions of viewers still presented a huge challenge.