Goodnight Mr Zero
Imagine your thought process entailed the understanding of fourth dimension, fifth dimension possibly even sixth. You would be cursed with the knowledge of how and when you were going to die. I suspect a certain legion had(s) that
BBC R4 - Edward Bond's 'Chair'
Directed by Turan Ali
Broadcast April 7, 2000
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Play written for radio, revised for the theatre and staged in 2008.
2077. Civil liberties have been constrained. The justice system
resembles
A Man in Pieces 22-04-2010
160K
Michael Symmons Roberts's new play, A Man In Pieces, looks at the effect of technology on bodies and minds, through the testing of a new sonic medical scanner.
Conor volunteers to test a new medical sonic scanner
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625Y A Science Fiction thriller by Wally K Daly presented on the BBC
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625Y
By Wally K Daley
1999 SciFi
Main character : Kate
Network : BBC
Parts : 1
Broadcast 1999.
The Heart of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
BBC Word Service: Play of the Week
Broadcast: Saturday 8th October 1988
A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and p
Between Planets
by Robert A. Heinlein
Don is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory be
The Star Beast ~Robert A. Heinlein
Publication Date: 1954
Audio Copyright Date: 2007
8 hrs, 18 min.
The Book:
Originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Star Beast tells the story of what happens when a domesticate
Didn't see these here so ... First 1 parts of uncompleted 5 story series -- dont know why BBC never completed series. Good stories - definetly childrens books (non judgemental term ) not as linguistically or philosophicaLLYdeep as Tolkien Garner or
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War with The Newts
Sunday 1 April 2007 20:00-21:30 (Radio 3)
By Karel Capek, dramatised by George Poles.
When humanity encounters another race of intelligent bipeds sharing the Earth, what choice is there but to exploit it? When the ex
BBC R4 - Fritz Lang & Thea von Harbou's 'Metropolis'
Adapted by Peter Straughan
Directed by Toby Swift
Broadcast March 24, 2006
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
Alhough using the same source material, and having the same
concerns, as Fritz Lang's 1927 film 'Me
Adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's sci-fi black comedy set on Planet Porno, where any plant, animal or human can mate with any other species.It is a place where Darwin's rule of evolution - the survival of the fittest - is no guide to staying alive,
Read more…BBC R4 - John Wyndham's 'The Midwich Cuckoos'
Adapted by Dan Rebellato
Music by Chris Madin
Directed by Polly Thomas
Broadcast in two parts November 30 and December 6, 2003
Coded from tape at 128/44.1
The files run over time slightly - I didn't
have the h
This is a five-part adaptation by the CBC
The Kraken Wakes (CBC)
John Wyndham
CBC 1965
What is the mystery of the blazing fireballs that plunge in to sea and never surface?
Starring:
Sam Paine, Shirley Broderick, Michael Irwin, Derek Walston, Allan Routon,
If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures. All these gestural qualities that the printed page strips from language come back in the dark, and on the radio."
---- Marshall McLuhan----
Journey Into Space: The Host
Charles Chilton & Julian Simpson
Saturday 27 June 2009
Julian Simpson's adaptation of the classic 1950s science fiction series. Originally written by Charles Chilton, it ran for more than 60 episodes during the Fifties.
Jet
