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BBC 4 space-radio drama on webFriday's BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play was based on the true story of two amateur radio enthusiasts who intercept transmissions from early Russian space missions and it can now be heard on the web. The BBC description says: It is 1964 and the Americans are losing the space race. The Soviets are way ahead and the Americans have failed utterly in gaining any intelligence on their rivals' space programme. So it seems fairly outrageous when two young Italian brothers turn up at NASA claiming to have successfully recorded almost every Russian space mission over the previous seven years. NASA has to take notice when they realise that the brothers have also intercepted American missions and have tapes of classified transmissions by John Glenn, the first American in space. As it happens they have been sending these recordings to NASA since the outset, but no one has believed them. No one except Carla Pettigrew, an audio analyst who is now trying to persuade Major Will Spencer, NASA's technical director, that he should believe what they have to say. Featuring some of the actual recordings made by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers, including the sound of a woman dying in space as her craft burns up on re-entry. The play was broadcast at 14:15 on May 29 and can be heard again on the web for the next 5 days at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kk4cc Judica-Cordiglia brothers
Our thanks to Ray Russell, M3ZRJ for spotting this item
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