Orbit One Zero by Peter Elliot Hayes

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Orbit One Zero by Peter Elliot Hayes

“A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more…”
Newspaper reporter, Tom Lambert has decided to reinvestigate the strange events of ten years before, concerning the “cosmic noise”. Believing the inside story was never told, he’s tracked down the only man who knows, Dr Hayward Petrie.
6 parts. Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Dr Petrie’s own recordings of the time when the detection of a strange pattern of signals sparked a mysterious discovery…

Cast:
Dr Petrie ... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert … David Spenser
Clifford Brown … Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder … Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren … Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick … Harold Reese


Orbiter X by BD Chapman

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 14 parts, 28 September-28 December 1959, a fortnight after the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash-landed on the Moon, Orbiter X thrilled radio audiences with its gripping and topical story of plucky British astronauts and their bold plan to conquer space. The original recordings were presumed lost, but fortunately, a set of discs made for overseas broadcast survived to be found and remastered by Radio 4 Extra in 2016. Included here are all 14 episodes of the rediscovered serial.

The road to the stars begins with the prefabricated components of a space station being rocketed into orbit. Shaped like a giant wheel and codenamed 'Orbiter X', the platform will boast synthetic gravity, produced by the rotation around the central hub, and is designed to circle the Earth in a rapid polar orbit. Equipped with a laboratory, observatory and living accommodation for the crew, it will enable mankind to explore the solar system and perhaps even set foot on the Moon...
But before construction can begin, the first assembly ship, Orbiter 1, loses contact with mission control following an apparent collision. A second craft, Orbiter 2, piloted by Captain Bob Britton, is sent out to rescue the first crew but finds Orbiter 1 deserted and the ship's log missing. Orbiter 2 has been led into a trap - and before they can escape, Britton and his team find themselves under attack...

Cast: 
Captain Bob Britton - John Carson
Captain Douglas McClelland - Andrew Crawford
Flight Engineer Hicks - Barrie Gosney
Colonel Kent - Donald Bisset
Captain Jack Bradley - John Witty
UFO Commander - Arthur Lawrence
Control Officer Camm - Francis Hall
Radio Operator - John Matthews
Gelbin - Arthur Lawrence
Max Kramer - Gerik Schjelderup
Greta Ravel - Irene Prador
Sir Charles Day - Leslie Perrins
Control Officer Brown - Peter Noel Cook
Neasen - Ian Sadler
Letmann - John Cazabon
Captain Knight - John Graham

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