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How cool is Radio 4? Not only have they got an adaptation of Dr
No coming up to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming, they are
also branching out into sci fi. Later this year the popular Torchwood
will undertake an audio adventure at CERN and Douglas Adams post Hitch-Hikers
character Dirk Gently will return for two further tales. BRAND NEW From the typewriter of Charles Chilton comes "Frozen In Time" a brand new adventure for Jet and the crew. Is it a one off or could it be the first of several one-off plays? Things have changed since 1958. Or was it 1981? David Jacobs is now star of the show, playing Jet Morgan, and the score has been composed by David Chilton - son of Charles Chilton - it's been performed on a synthesiser but it still sounds orchestral. The cast includes Alan Marriott - a relation perhaps of Anthony Marriott, the original Whitaker. This is exciting news for all fans of radio's greatest adventure. The story continues at last! There have been at least two trailers on Radio 4 in the build up. "Journey Into Space: Frozen In Time" will be broadcast as the Saturday Play on Saturday 12th April on Radio 4. It will be available to listen to online for up to seven days afterwards via the Radio 4 website www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 Even if you heard the show already click on the Listen Again to give it a hit. The more hits it gets the more likely the BBC will consider making future programs of this sort. Let's see if we can make Journey Into Space more popular than Chris Moyles!
The Sunday Times Paul Donovan writes about growing up listening to Jet's adventures on the wireless and previews the new adventure (W A R N I N G S P O I L E R S !). He is a big fan of Journey Into Space, a radio critic and author of The Radio Companion. Radio Times Journey Into Space - Talking Book of the first novel available on CD in May 2008
BBC Audiobooks are going to release a talking book of the first Journey Into Space novel. It is a complete and unabridged reading read by William Hope - an American actor who featured in Aliens. The book has been out of print for many years and copies are hard to find. Hopefully if this goes well, all three novelisations will be made into talking books. It is released on 8 May 2008. There are six CDs with a total running time of approximately 7 hours. The cover replicates the artwork from the 1958 PAN paperback. On the back: Journey Into Space - Charles Chilton The Novel of the First Record-Breaking Radio Serial William Hope reads the complete and unabridged novelisation of Charles Chilton's hugely successful radio series, Journey into Space. Destination - the Moon! No other adventurers had ever faced greater hazards than the crew of the rocket-ship Luna when she hurtled into space. Jet Morgan, ace pilot, was her captain. With him were her Australian designer, Mitch; Lemmy, the Cockney radio operator; and Doc, whose diary astonished everyone... Charles Chilton's classic science fiction radio serial stormed the BBC airwaves between 1953 and 1958. With it's gripping storylines and tense cliff-hangers, it kept a devoted audience of almost eight million people enthralled during it's three series. So popular were the radio serials that Chilton was inspired to write a trilogy of bestselling novels featuring Captain Jet Morgan and his crew. First published in 1954, this thrilling first story is read by Aliens star William Hope, and tells how the Luna's adventures began. Charles Chilton featured on BBC Four 'Curse of Comedy' Documentary As part of "The Curse of Comedy" season on BBC Four (March 2008) there was a programme entitled "Auntie's War on Smut". This looked back at the rules of comedy in the BBC, particularly during the golden age of comedy, when the 'Green Book' was issued to producers. Created by Charles Chilton's boss Michael Standing this was a code of ethics for comedy - the rulebook for Light Entertainment. Chilton was interviewed and on top form recounting mishaps from the past as well as talking about The Goon Show. This follows on from the History Of Light Entertainment broadcast a few years back on BBC2, where Chilton appeared in episode 3, which focused on radio comedy. The World In Peril available to download Completing the episodes to download as mp3 or wma files, you can now download: Operation Luna - 13 episodes They are available from sites like tunetribe.com, audible.co.uk, audacity.co.uk and the BBC shop. PDFs with background notes to the three releases also come free with either the first episode, last episode or series omnibus. Some sites let you download the PDFs for free.
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