36 ***^ Wednesday 24 July 2019 The Daily Telegraph
The week in radio Charlotte Runcieie
Animal Babies: First Year
on Earth
BBC TWO, 9.00PM
The BBC’s latest
nature programme
should really come with
a special warning: too
much exposure might lead
to an excess of feelings.
Certainly the cute factor
is ramped up as we meet
six different baby animals
in six different parts of the
world, facing the many
perils of survival in their
first year. In Kenya, baby
elephant Safina takes her
first faltering steps with
her matriarchal herd.
Off the coast of Monterey,
California, baby otter
Limpet tries to survive
both humans and boats,
while in Iceland a pack of
baby arctic foxes pounce
on each other. Most
amazingly, the programme
even manages to make
baby hyenas seem sweet- until the moment when
the voiceover says that
they might turn on each
other in order to survive.
For all the sunshine and
joy, the filmmakers are
keen to stress just how
hard this first year of life
is for most of the baby
animals, a warning that’s
most clear in the case of
Ugandan baby mountain
gorilla, Jacobara, who
faces the episode’s biggest
moment of peril. That said,
we’re not yet at racer
snakes levels of heart-
shredding terror – and
thank goodness. I’m notsure I’d forgive the BBC if
they start showing baby
animals dying week after
week. Sarah HughesCurrent AffairsNews Special: The UK’s
New Prime Minister
BBC ONE/ITV, 1.45PM/2.00PM Following yesterday’s
vote announcement, the
event itself: Boris Johnson
will officially become Prime
Minister after Theresa May
formally resigns (following
her last PMQs in the
morning). Both BBC One
and ITV will broadcast live,
with the former featuring
Huw Edwards from
Downing Street and Sophie
Raworth at Buckingham
Palace, where Her Majesty,
the Queen will invite
Johnson to form a new
government. Then, on BBC
One at 7.30pm there’s also aspecial report into the new
Conservative leader. SHDocumentaryThe Great Hack
NETFLIX, FROM TODAY “Nothing is what itseems,” notes journalist
Carole Cadwalladr during
this intriguing if terrifying
documentary about the
Cambridge Analytica/
Facebook scandal. SHOrangutan Jungle School
CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM Channel 4 returns to
Borneo for a third series
looking at life at the Nyaru
Menteng Orangutan Rescue
Centre. We see the oldest
residents relearning how
to live independently. SHFactualShop Well for Less?
BBC ONE, 8.00PM The consumer affairsWhat to watch
Radio choice Charlotte Runcie
Giant leap: TV footage of the Apollo 11 mission was limited only to the moon walk itself
How the Moon landing
found its home on radio
A
n estimated 600 m people
around the world
watched the Moon
landing live on television
in 1969, the pictures
grainy and indistinct.
I was born in the Eighties and my
earliest memories of learning about
the event are mostly sound: the roar of
the blastoff, the hush of the journey
punctuated by equipment bleeps and
crackling American-accented radio
transmissions, and, at last, “the Eagle
has landed”, and Neil Armstrong’s
awed voice announcing one giant leap
for mankind.
The Apollo 11 Moon landing
couldn’t have happened without radio
communication and radio is the perfect
way to experience the wonder of it
afresh. Everywhere you turn on the
radio at the moment, someone from
Nasa is marking the 50th anniversary
by talking about how the great mission
was achieved, with archive sound
recordings of that world-changing
moment. And it proves how much of
our cultural memory of the Moon
landing is based on what it sounded
like rather than what it looked like.
“Apollo 11 was essentially a very long
radio show,” said broadcaster and
science historian James Burke in
James Burke: Our Man on the Moon
(Saturday, Radio 4), because there
were so few TV transmissions coming
down from space. TV broadcasts were
too complicated for Nasa to organise
throughout the mission, and so the
descent itself was only available in
sound, with no pictures.
In this spellbinding programme
recorded in front of an audience,
accompanied by archive clips, Burke
recalled how he had been the
presenter of the BBC’s live TV
coverage in 1969, recruited because he
was a Tomorrow’s World presenter and
the BBC “needed a geek” to explain
what was happening. Burke described
the “stone-age” TV capabilities at the
time meant that the presenting team
had to ad lib for long periods with
occasional guidance from their
producers given over a landline phone
call to the studio.
Burke conveyed the enormity of the
moment from a British perspective.
As a presenter by trade, while other
programmes had technological insight
from people working at Nasa, Burke
excelled at actually telling the story,
focusing on the really exciting bits.
He related the terrifying moments
where things went wrong, the
immense amount of preparation that
had gone into Apollo 11, and the sense
of humanity amid the technology.
We heard a clip of the radio
communications in the preceding
Apollo 10 mission, for instance, when
a piece of radar equipment wasn’tworking and would prevent the craft
from being able to descend. The
astronauts couldn’t get it working
again. Mission Control sent one
last-ditch instruction: “How about
trying to recycle the power switch?” In
the command module, the astronauts
duly turned the switch off and on
again. The reply was swift. “Hey, that
did it you guys! It’s on!”
Burke’s storytelling was funny and
insightful, his enthusiasm infectious,
and he conveyed the grandeur of the
achievement beautifully.
The sense of awe was more muted
in Eno and Cox on the Moon
(Saturday, 6 Music), with the now
well-established 6 Music broadcasting
partnership of two Brians, one from
the world of music and the other from
physics, both passionate about space.
They talked in a laid-back pub chat
sort of way about why it was all so
amazing, and played some Moon-
themed tunes (highlights were The
Marcels’ 1961 doo-wop version of Blue
Moon, and Public Service
Broadcasting’s euphoric 2015 indie
song Go! from their concept album The
Race for Space, which sampled and
recreated Apollo 11 transmissions), and
got quite philosophical towards the
end. “We were born of this planet and
this planet is our mother,” said Eno,
before suggesting that it’s now time to
leave our mother and be free to
explore on our own to see what else
the Universe has in store.
And what would that entail? Well,
Moonbase 2029 (Tuesday, Radio 4)
was a fascinating meditation on what’s
next, focusing on the push to establish
a permanent base on the Moon, for
starters. Presenter Dallas Campbell
encountered some key research
projects, such as using Moon dust as a
building material, and work towards
being able to grow food on the Moon’s
surface. We learned that urine – a
readily available resource on the
Moon, as long as astronauts helpfully
provide it – can be converted into a
fertiliser which Moon residents could
use to grow tomatoes. One person
could feed 10,000 square metres of
growing area with their urine.
And on that bombshell, there’s been
so much Moon-related broadcasting
that I think we’re all a bit mooned out.
I may need to spend the next month
staring at the Earth, for balance.BBC Proms 2019
RADIO 3, 7.30PM The seductive rhythms
of dance are pulsing
through this Prom, as the
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Péter Eötvös,
perform Stravinsky’s
Firebird, Debussy’s Prélude
à l’après-midi d’un faune,
and Bartók’s Dance Suite.There’s also the British
premiere of Eötvös’s
violin concerto Alhambra
with violinist Isabelle
Faust, described by this
newspaper as “one of the
leading players of her
generation”. In the interval,
Hannah Conway hosts a
discussion about Bartók
with the musicologist
Erik Levi.Stranger Than Sci-Fi
RADIO 4, 9.00PM In this programme about
“real-life science that sounds
too strange to be true”,
astrophysicist and science
communicator Jen Gupta,
host of the BBC’s Tomorrow’s
World Live, and Australian
comedian and podcaster
Alice Fraser (in her podcast,she “drinks tea and solves
the world”) look at real-life
scientific concepts and
discoveries that sound
even stranger than science
fiction. In this episode
they consider “black hole
jacuzzis” and the science
behind Claire Denis’s film
High Life, which is about a
group of criminals travelling
towards a black hole.show hosted by Alex Jones
and Steph McGovern
returns with an enjoyable
episode with Evesham
couple, Caroline and John,
and their eight children.
Caroline’s organisational
skills are a thing of beauty
but can the duo convince
her to bin the brands? SHRemarkable Places to Eat
BBC TWO, 8.00PM Fred Sirieix’s food
odyssey continues with a
trip to Scotland. This time
around he’s the guest of the
ever-enthusiastic Tom
Kerridge, who takes him to
Tom Kitchin’s eponymous
restaurant in Leith before
the suave maître d’ tries his
hand at lobster fishing off
the Scottish coast. SHOur Cops in the North
BBC ONE, 9.00PM; SCOTLAND, 10.35PM Tonight’s episode of the
fly-on-the-wall series is
particularly hard to watch;
the filmmakers follow the
fall-out from the fatal
stabbing of a 62-year-old
grandmother. While the
dead woman’s daughterfeels pity for the assailant
her family need answers. SHSportLive Test Cricket: England
v Ireland
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT/CRICKET, 10.00AM England’s World Cup-
winning captain Eoin
Morgan, born in Dublin,
will watch this four-day
game at Lord’s with keen
interest. The two sides have
never played a Test match
before. Joe Root and his
team will need to reach
good form – the first Ashes
Test at Edgbaston is now
just over a week away.The Great Hack: CadwalladrTest Cricket: Joe RootPeril: baby elephant Safina is protected by a matriarchal herdRadio 1
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