A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Dirk Maggs

Voyage

An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs

Stephen Baxter is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He co-wrote the Long Earth series with Terry Prachett. He lives in Northumberland.

An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs. 
 
After the moon, Mars… What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme? 
 
President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition is Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet. 
 
Exploring mankind’s ambitions in space, Voyage chronicles the incredible story of what could have been. 
 
Also included is an one-hour bonus programme featuring Dirk Maggs in conversation with Stephen Baxter, 20 years after Voyage was recorded. This wonderful, intimate conversation between the two friends is peppered with memories of the recording, the production process, and what inspired Stephen to pen such a well-loved story. 
 
Cast: 
 
Natalie York...Laurel Lefkow 
Mike Conlig...William Dufris 
Gregory Dana...Michael Roberts 
Joe Muldoon...Vincent Marzello 
Chuck Jones...Frank Lazarus 
Jim Dana...Russell Bentley 
Ben Priest...William Roberts 
Ralph Gershon...Mel Taylor 
Phil Stone...Rolf Saxon 
 
Based on the novel by Stephen Baxter 
Produced and directed by Dirk Maggs 
Music by Wilfredo Acosta

Stephen Baxter

David Troughton

2nd Doctor Novel

David Troughton reads this gripping adventure by award-winning author Stephen Baxter, featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe. 
 
The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. 
It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore. 
And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn's rings, saves an enigmatic blue box from destruction. Aboard the Wheel, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find a critical situation - and they are suspected by some as the source of the sabotage. They soon find themselves caught in a mystery that goes right back to the creation of the solar system. A mystery that could kill them all. 
 
? 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2012, 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
Text © Stephen Baxter 2012

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