Entertainment For Lively Minds
Being Neil Armstrong
Posted by SpaceBoy on 5 July 2009 - 7:56pm.
Don't think this Andrew "Moondust" Smith prog about Neil Atmstrong has been
blogged:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lkvln
just wondered if anyone has found the full BBC Apollo schedule as I haven't seen one yet ?
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too busy reading my signed copy
of Buzz Aldrin's new book!!
Astronautics it's the new Rock "n" Roll!
Oh!
I have one of them as well. Take it you were at the Royal Festival hall on Saturday? The FPO has told me that he hardly ever does signings and when he does he's been known to charge $500 for an autograph. No idea if its true but if it is I'm chuffed to bits...
Yep, I thought it was good evening
I was releaved never meet your heroes and that. I thought Buzz came over well and didn't seem to be going through the motions and top night and £250 worth of autograph!
Magnificent desolation
the title of the book Buzz plugged approximately 100 times in 100 minutes. Sad that the PA announcer at Festival Hall before the show insisted on calling it Magnificent Dissolution - but clearly he must have been dwelling on the part about Aldrin's alcoholism.
A good night and a good book too. Robyn Hitchcock was in attendance I noticed, though sadly he didn't get up to accompany Buzz's talk in the same way Pink Floyd accompanied the orginal moon landing. Pity really.
He could have shown up...
... glared at us all in silence before giving us all the finger and flouncing off stage and I'd have still been delighted I have to say. I came down with a serious dose of hero worship in there.
I'm not sure
just how much use tis programme can be.
Armstrong is notoriously shy of the media, and has been for a very long time. As a result, absolutely evrything that is said is effectively hearsay and speculation. Doesn't necesarily mean it's bad but without your subject it all seems a bit of a trawl....
I thought it was better than it could have
been Andrew smith seems a thoughtful chap and in someways if Neil Armstrong had turned up at the end it would have been a let down as I doubt he's said anything much.
I do think congress (or similar) should privately "debrief" him before he joins Gus Grissom et al in the fighter jock rec room in the sky so as to have historical record of this ages Christopher Columbus . It could be released after his passing (assuming something similar has not been done before now).
Strong and silent
I dunno, I think he was quite forthcoming at the time, in the way you have in mind:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11tcdb.html
just not a natural for public fora-I think for once I agree with Charlie Brooker (link someone has posted below).
(edit: I think this is also similar to what you have in mind
-see the oral hitory tab on left menu at:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.html
)
Meanwhile, many of his peers have been rather more chatty, see:
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4223/contents.htm
I thoroughly enjoyed it...
and I have to say that Neil Armstrong has certainly earned the right to be silent if he so wishes.
In any case, I doubt whether his experiences could ever be put into words satisfactorily. Some things are better left unsaid... perhaps it is better if we simply try to imagine what he must have felt like up there.
BBC Archives
It's not the schedule, but there's an archive of BBC moonshot-related programmes at http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/moonlandings/
Charlie Brooker's view
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/04/being-neil-armstrong-moon-...
I was tempted to watch it
but then read the (I think) Guardian preview where they pointed out that he didn't actually meet The One Small Step Historymaker.
Given the amount of other lunar programmes on this week, I thought I could safely miss it.
Had a look at
BBC 4 guide for today on web and I see what you mean-perhaps you can have too much of a good thing-still wondering if they couldn't do a master list somewhere though-oh well, will just have to keep eyes peeled.
(edit: Looks like this is closest thing to what I'm looking for, covers the new documentaries etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/08/m...
Clearly things like the documentary that followed "Being Neil Arsmstrong" won't figure in the list-it was derived from the 2 part one shown in 1994 that Alison Pearson reviews here :
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/television--the-private-... )
Didn't Andrew Smith
do exactly the same thing in the book he wrote several years ago? If my memory serves me, Smith corresponded several times with Armstrong via email. So his "delight" at receiving a response to his questions seemed a little fake to me. He's already done it once before, which is presumably how he happened to have his email address.
it's a tv show not the central criminal court
they could have shot it in office in white city or just sent out the emails to us.