Journey into Space | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 27/03/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_into_Space


00:02:29 1 The main characters
00:04:37 2 Original three series
00:04:47 2.1 iJourney to the Moon/i/iOperation Luna/i
00:08:41 2.2 iThe Red Planet/i
00:10:45 2.3 iThe World in Peril/i
00:11:25 3 Critical reaction and legacy
00:14:42 4 Music
00:18:34 5 Sound effects
00:20:51 6 Novels
00:21:50 7 Comic strips
00:23:24 8 Discovery of Transcription discs
00:26:01 9 Special episodes
00:26:11 9.1 iThe Return from Mars/i
00:27:14 9.2 iFrozen in Time/i
00:28:13 9.3 iThe Host/i
00:28:46 10 BBC releases on audio cassette and CD
00:28:59 10.1 Audiobooks
00:29:14 11 In translation
00:30:54 12 Other related series



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SUMMARY
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Journey Into Space is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by BBC producer Charles Chilton. It was the last UK radio programme to attract a bigger evening audience than television. Originally, four series were produced (the fourth was a remake of the first), which was translated into 17 languages (including Hindustani, Turkish and Dutch) and broadcast in countries worldwide (including the United States, New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands). Chilton later wrote three best-selling novels and several comic strip stories based upon the radio series.
The first series was created in 1953, soon after Riders of the Range (a popular Western, also written by Chilton) ended its six series on the BBC Light Programme. Michael Standing, then Head of the BBC Variety Department, asked Chilton if he could write a sci-fi programme, and Journey to the Moon (later known as Operation Luna) was the result. Each half-hour episode would usually end with a dramatic cliffhanger, to increase the audience's incentive to tune into the next episode.
The original magnetic recordings of the show were erased shortly after broadcast, and for several decades it was believed that no recordings of the show had survived. In 1986, a set of misfiled Transcription Service discs (produced for sale to overseas radio stations) was discovered, containing complete copies of the three original series (more accurately, the surviving version of the first series is a cut-down remake of the original, produced for the Transcription Service during the 1950s). This discovery enabled the BBC to begin re-broadcasting the show in the late 1980s, and release copies of the show, first on audio cassette, and more recently on CD and internet download.
Fans of Journey Into Space include Colin Pillinger, Kenny Everett, John Major, Stephen Hawking, Miriam Margolyes and former Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe.