Steve Gallagher Trilogy, The
Year: 1978-1980
Duration: 6 hrs
Genre: Dystopian Future/ Robots/ Aliens
Story by: Stephen Gallagher
It is a Science fiction serial made for Independent Local Radio. Half-hour episodes. Produced by Tony Hawkins with technical supervision by Peter Baker. It was in six parts and although it was made on a shoestring, it was syndicated around most of the commercial stations in the UK. It was later broadcast on the BBC
A lengthy serial about the relationship between man and machine in a future where the lines dividing the two become increasingly, and more dangerously, blurred. Never is there a proper title for the trilogy mentioned, though some sources refer to it as the 'Last Rose of Summer Trilogy', perhaps because that segment was the original novel upon which the entire story evolved in radio form. Each segment of the trilogy contains its own story line, though naturally it makes more sense as a whole. The series is not actually from the BBC, but a product of Piccadilly Radio out of Manchester, UK.
Last Rose of Summer, The (1978) 2 hrs 30 min—In the future the world's population resides entirely in the City, a megalopolis controlled down to the minutiae of everyday life by Central Command, a supercomputer. A lowly nobody by the name of Mitchell decides that this just won't do. He embarks on a crusade to overthrow the system, hunted down by Randall, one of the hard core 'Elite', enforcers trained since birth to serve the State.
Hunter's Moon (1979) 3 hrs 20 min—The Central Computer destroyed, society is on the verge of collapse, only to be 'saved' by the advent of the Council, tyrants who have seized power in the vacuum. Randall, contaminated by his exposure to Mitchell, is packed off to a polar prison complex. Then a new threat emerges: an alien race arrives—the Wekk—who rape planets to build their Worldships. Having patterned Mitchell's persona into a mechanical simulacrum, they begin building an army of simulacra to overwhelm the Earth. The Council has even sold out to the Wekk to save their own hides. Only Randall, Lobo—a fellow convict—and the Mitchell simulacra stand in their way.
Babylon Run, The (1980) 1 hr 40 min—Hundreds of years later, in a time when Man has spread out to the stars, a commercial charter makes a forced landing on the Babylon asteroid, a luxury resort for the super rich. Their ship damaged, they are dismayed to find the complex abandoned due to an incoming 'something' on a collision course. If that weren't bad enough, there is mutiny brewing, and Babylon itself is not what it seems to be...
THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER - 1977
HUNTERS' MOON - 1978 Steven Gallagher Trilogy Link
BABYLON RUN - 1980
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Thank you for the Steven Gallagher link. Started The Last Rose of Summer and was very surprised to get hooked - finished listening, wanted to say thanks before I forgot.
Enjoy!
Hooked me too (line and sinker for that matter-LOL)
Thanks from me also!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------- R
Enjoy all!
Did anybody save Bill´s Stereo-HQ-Versions and still has them to share? That would be great!!!
I have them amigo- give me a bit and I will upload
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uploading to Sci Fi here now
"Last Rose of Summer" is the first series
uploaded
"hunters moon" the second
uploading
"Babylon Run" (will upload in the morning) the third (all made by picadilly audio
these are the full stereo versions I am uploading (and ROCK)
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May all have a groovy evening
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Bill, you rock, Brother!!! :)
"Hunters Moon" Part 5, 6 & 7 are missing! *lol*
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Had a lighting storm and had to shut down- starting the re-ups now
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