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Episode 61: Reg Turnill on Wernher von Braun

By Gurbir Dated: February 15, 2013 2 Comments

Reg Turnill wit von Braun
Reg Turnill with Wernher von Braun 1977

Like so many in the “space community” I was saddened to hear of the passing of Reg Turnill. He was  the BBC’s aerospace correspondent but is  best known  for covering the American Space program  throughout the 60s and 70s that he documents so well in his book Moonlandings: An eye witness account.

He was the BBC’s representative in Moscow at Gagarin’s post flight press conference and told me in episode 41 of his experience when I went to meet him in January 2011.

Reg captures the ambiguity of the brilliant Wernher von Braun who he got to know so well that he called him a friend and yet believed that he was a war criminal and should have been hanged.

In this 30 minute podcast , the first a six minutes is  telephone conversation recorded on 3rd November 2011 followed by extracts from his talk at the UK Space Conference 5th July 2011 “The von Braun that I knew”. Reg shares three of his audio interviews with von Braun, the audio quality of the 2nd and 3rd is better than the first.

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  1. David Cowell says

    24th September 2021 at 13:36

    Grappling with the Unintelligible: the autobiography of Reg Turnill

    As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC’s space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 13.

    This is the autobiography of Reg Turnill and tells of his involvement as a journalist in the early days of industrial journalism, aviation and space exploration.

    You can buy “Grappling with the Unintelligible” on Amzon in both paperback and Kindle formats.

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  1. Virgin Galactic, Virgin no More | elcidharth says:
    29th April 2013 at 20:00

    […] Reg Turnill, Wernher von Braun, NASA, Rocket on Episode 41: April 9th 2011: Yuri Gagarin and Reg Turnill […]

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