I REMEMBER the day of the moon landing well. I was working in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea as a maternal and child health nurse.

The house boy and myself were listening to the broadcast on short wave radio transmission of the Transworld Radio programme.

I recall explaining to the house boy that the voice he could hear was that of the first man to step on to the moon at that very moment. He found it difficult to understand because the moon to many of the highlanders was a light shining through a hole into our land which was a big stone.

These people were only just accepting the fact that aircraft did not become smaller as they rose into the air.

I felt privileged to have shared the experience in such a way. Although we did not have access to modern commodities, we did have access to the western world through radio communication systems.

VALERIE CHASE, Scarborough Road, Blackburn.

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