Alan Davies
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Life Without Rats was produced by Rian Moussa with support from Michelle Martin.
Rubina Babani is the executive producer, Emily Jarvis is production manager and sound designer mix is by Nick Handley and Tom Butler.
The commissioning editor for Radio 4 is Rhian Roberts.
This is an ITN production for BBC Radio 4.
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It all started as a messy cosmic fling four and a half billion years ago.
In the heat of the moment, two bodies got a little too close, and one explosive moment later, they were together, then flung apart, fuming and scorched.
They tried giving each other space, moving apart.
Bit by bit, they drifted farther away.
And the chaos softened into a rhythm of tides and seasons and a whole life balanced on this awkward, long-distance thing with about 380,000 kilometres between them.
The moon swings by in full glow and the Earth pretends it's not obsessed.
In the moon's eyes, Earth became that majestic blue ball that it once loved, the centre around which its whole life revolves.
Welcome to Life Without, where I yank a Jenga block out of our magnificent world.