Episode 61: Reg Turnill on Wernher 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.