Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

Author: BBC World Service March 30, 2026 Duration: 4:40

Humans are returning to the Moon - hear all about it on the BBC’s space podcast. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is following Nasa’s mission to loop around the Moon, with a new episode every day. Starts on Monday 30 March 2026. Search for 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Follow or subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode. Nasa plans to return to the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. Its Artemis II mission aims to send four astronauts to loop around the Moon. They are planning to go further from Earth than any human in history. The story of Artemis II is being told by space scientist, Maggie Aderin, and British astronaut, Tim Peake. They are joined by expert contributors, US space journalist Kristin Fisher and the BBC News Science Editor, Rebecca Morelle. 13 Minutes is the BBC’s space podcast, telling epic space stories, including the first Moon landing, Apollo 13 and the space shuttle. Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.


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The Tabasco floods [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:56
In 2007, the Mexican state of Tabasco experienced its worst flooding in 50 years, with more than a million people affected. Eighty per cent of the region was under water, with people having to be rescued from the roofs o…
The clean-up of Chernobyl [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:19
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986, was the world’s worst nuclear accident. The explosion in reactor four caused radioactive parts to be spread over the nearby area. Hundreds…
Canada's war in the woods [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:03
In 1993, plans to log one of Canada’s ancient rainforests sparked the country’s largest act of civil disobedience. It was known as the war in the woods. For months, protesters blocked a remote logging road on Vancouver I…
Europe’s long drought of 2011 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:58
In 2011, after months of little or no rain in central and eastern Europe, water levels on some parts of the Danube River fell to their lowest level in 70 years.It’s one of Europe’s busiest shipping routes, but in Novembe…
Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:51
In October 1982, Paraguay and Brazil closed the gates of the Itaipu River, beginning to fill the reservoir of what would soon be the world's largest dam. Located in a rainforest on the border between the two countries, t…
Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:14
In October 2012, a local historian stumbled upon a misplaced pamphlet in the Danish Archives. It was a story called the Tallow Candle and is believed to be Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairytale. Ejnar Askgaard, Curat…
The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:47
Aceh in Sumatra is the only Indonesian province where Sharia Law, Islamic religious law, is in force. It followed years of conflict between Aceh and the central government.In Arabic, Sharia means "the clear, well-trodden…
The assassination of Thomas Sankara [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:00
In October 1987, one of Africa's most radical leaders, Captain Thomas Sankara, was gunned down in a coup in Burkina Faso.His overthrow was orchestrated by his old friend, Blaise Compaore. Thomas Sankara's brother, Paul,…
Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:53
In 1993, the Irish writer Roddy Doyle won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction. His novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, was remarkable for the way it conveyed gritty drama through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy. Roddy tells…
The creation of My Little Pony [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:46
My Little Pony first appeared in shops in the United States in 1983 and in that decade alone more than 100 million would be sold. But American toymaker Bonnie Zacharle tells Josephine McDermott how her idea to make a pon…