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Liz Kershaw sits in, celebrating the moon landings anniversary with guests including Woody Woodmansey

Liz Kershaw sits in for Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, and celebrates the moon landing's anniversary with music and guests including Woody Woodmansey.

Liz Kershaw sits in for Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie. To mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, Liz explores the influence space and the moon has had on music.

Today's special guests include Woody Woodmansey, talking about his work with David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars. Music expert and The Long Ryders’ frontman Sid Griffin chats to Liz about his memories of watching the moon landings as a child in the United States and the affect it has had on popular music. Plus Mark Radcliffe chats ahead of his and Stuart's show from Bluedot festival.

With moon-themed tracks chosen by listeners and an early outing for Liz's regular feature 'All Killer No Filler' where a listener chooses a favourite album.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 20 Jul 2019 07:00

Music Played

  • The Waterboys

    The Whole of the Moon

    • Chrysalis.
  • The Cult

    Brother Wolf Sister Moon

    • Love.
    • Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
    • 4.
  • Penelope Isles

    Leipzig

    • Bella Union.
  • Frank Sinatra

    Fly Me to the Moon

    • A Man And His Music.
    • Reprise.
  • Lamb

    Bulletproof

    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • Inspiral Carpets

    Saturn 5

    • Cow Records.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Ticket To The Moon

    • Time.
    • Epic.
  • Bat for Lashes

    Kids In The Dark

    • AWAL recordings.
  • Neil Young

    Harvest Moon

    • Reprise.
  • David Bowie

    Space Oddity

    • EMI.
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Bad Moon Rising

    • Fantasy.
  • The National

    Rylan

    • 4AD.
  • Voice of the Beehive

    Man In The Moon

    • Let It Bee.
    • London Records 90 Limited.
    • 4.
  • Ibibio Sound Machine

    Wanna Come Down

    • Merge Records.
  • Róisín Murphy

    Incapable

    • BMG.
  • Ramones

    Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)

  • Elvis Presley

    Blue Moon of Kentucky

    • 75 Jukebox Hits CD1.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 22.
  • The Byrds

    Space Odyssey

    • The Notorious Byrd Brothers.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 11.
  • The Long Ryders

    What The Eagle Sees

    • Psychedelic Country Soul.
  • R.E.M.

    Man on the Moon

    • Warner Bros.
  • The Police

    Walking On The Moon

    • The Very Best Of The Police.
    • A&M.
  • Hot Chip

    Hungry Child

    • Domino.
  • Kraftwerk

    Tour De France

    • CD SINGLE.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • The Mekons

    Ghosts Of American Astronauts

    • Heaven and Hell: The Very Best of the Mekons.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 002.
  • Easy Star All-Stars & Dr. Israel

    Brain Damage

    • Dub Side Of The Moon.
    • 8.
  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

    • EMI.
  • David Bowie

    Moonage Daydream

    • EMI.
  • David Bowie

    Starman

  • Hawkwind

    Silver Machine

    • Polygram TV.

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Jul 2019 07:00