[音频]1972 was the year a great love affair ended.The human race 1 out oflove with the moon.It was a classic case of familiarity breeds contempt.There’d been six moon landings, and we’d grown 2 .To this day no-one has been back.The moon didturn out to bedull.It’s, what do you see, a barren colourless landscape with fragmentary 3 all over the place.Our eyes wandered to other more intriguing worlds.Throughout the 4 system scientists found many more moons that seemed far more exciting than our own dull pile of grey rock.For 35 years our own moon has been 5 .But now all that’s about to change.This is the 6 of our love affair with the moon.What inspired it, how itfaded away, and how now we’re slowly but 7 falling in love all over again.Our love affair with the moon is an 8 one.It is earth’s constant companion in the dark emptiness of space.The moon haslooked down onthe whole of human history.And throughout history, we have looked 9 at it.It has inspired great myths and legends.We’ve feared it, and we’ve worshipped it.Five thousand years ago, in a 10 corner of the Outer Hebrides, a Neolithic community made its home.We know very 11 about these people, but they’ve left us an enduring symbol of their profound relationship with the moon.Islanders Margaret Curtis and her husband Ron have devoted their lives to 12 that relationship.I find a link with these people that our minds seem to be working along the same ideas.This has been very much of a 13 story sorting it all out.They may not have had writing but they’ve set the stones up in such a way that we canfathom outwhat they were after.No-one knows for 14 what the Standing Stones of Callanish represent.But their positioning suggests that they are a 15 tribute to the moon, part sacred site and part ancient observatory.These stones at Callanish are a sort of lun, lunar computer, a lunar calendar and it’s a computer that’s still working after 5,000 years, which is more than we can say for some of the computers we’ve got round nowadays.