On Saturday morning, July 20, 2019 - the fiftieth anniversary of the landing on the moon - I got a call from the BBC asking if they could interview me about the legacy of Apollo, where we go from here, and about meeting Neil Armstrong.

Of course I said yes!

Why they thought I would be a good person to present a perspective on all this is a bit of a mystery, but I gather they heard some scurrilous rumors about me, via my most excellent friends Lucy Williamson-Wright and John Nilsson Williamson-Wright, that we were hosting an Apollo 11 anniversary party that evening. Which still doesn’t answer the qualification question, but hey. I was honored to be asked.

Here's the interview (starts at about 46:20), and a few photos from the party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172wyj6q5hj7w0…

The link will be active for 30 days only, alas. But of course I saved it as an mp3 and may post that later after the link is dead. Copyright, of course, belongs to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

[Added 20 November 2019]

Anyhow, I think the interview went well. My sincere thanks to Lucy and John, because this was truly checking off an item on my lifelist - to appear on the Beeb! And a big mahalo (thank you) to Henry Tang and his team at the BBC, who couldn’t have been more kind and pleasant to work with.

And lastly, I’m using an image of James Burke (James Burke, Burke Burnett - get it? Oh never mind), the justly famous former BBC presenter who covered the Apollo moon landings back in the day, and who went on to create and host some of the best science tv documentaries ever produced - the series Connections, The Day The Universe Changed, and others. Why this photo? Because my friends forgot to take a photo of me at my computer being interviewed, so it’s the best I’ve got!

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