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On the radio

The John Batchelor Show is beginning to create podcasts of individual segments, including the ones I do with John twice a week. Below is an embed of last night’s appearance.

I am going to play with these to see how to routinely add them to the webpage. Probably, I will place them as a link in the right column in the section titled “Recent and upcoming appearances.”

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

7 comments

  • Willi Kusche

    Excellent! I’ve been able to pick your segment out of an hour’s broadcast but doing so is a bit tedious. So, this will be a great time saver.

  • PeterF

    Thank you for appearing on the John Batchelor show. (I had never heard of Al Bowley before I started listening to him).
    And thank you for doing the “Good old Gullible” George Noori show. I wish more people who didn’t have several styles of tin foil hats would go on his show.

  • danae

    Yes, please, it would be great to have links to podcasts of your appearances. John Bachelor’s show is always interesting in its entirety, but is accessible to me (live) on radio only during the height of summer.

  • vonmazur

    Robert: I caught you on Bachelor’s Show. It was refreshing to hear a rational discussion….I am glad that Noory had some ephiphanic moment and fired “he who will not be named” Good luck with Ol’ George, he is very hard for me to listen to sometimes, when he starts interrupting the guests with tin foil hat woo…..Maybe you can help him see the light??

  • mivenho

    Very enjoyable and informative. Someday I hope to be as geeky as you.

  • Mitch S.

    I’ve enjoyed your segments on the Batchelor show for some time now.
    An excellent part of a generally interesting program (I think of Batchelor’s program as the “anti-NPR”)
    I believe that’s how I became aware of your blog.

  • Steve

    Mitch S.
    January 14, 2016 at 9:39 am
    “I’ve enjoyed your segments on the Batchelor show for some time now.
    An excellent part of a generally interesting program (I think of Batchelor’s program as the “anti-NPR”)
    I believe that’s how I became aware of your blog.”

    Seconded. And stealing “anti-NPR” Perfect description of the JB Show. Or maybe NPR for the Rational person… LOL!

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