A BBC Radio thriller

Babelsberg Babylon

Babelsberg Film Studios, 1929. 
 
A major new movie is in production when its star Krista Wolff suddenly disappears. The head of the studio and the film's writer are desperate to find her. Each have their own reasons. 
 
Nick Perry's suspenseful drama is set amid the creative ferment of 1920s Berlin, centred around Babelsberg Film Studio, the world's oldest large-scale film studio. Out of the darkness of military defeat, political chaos, poverty and hyperinflation springs the phenomenon of Weimar culture, a defiant celebration of humanity and artistic expression in all its diverse forms. 
 
People flock to Berlin to be a part of the cultural explosion. Writer Jonas Beck, actress Krista Wolff and war veteran Peter X are among them. 
 
Jonas Beck . . . . . Paul Chahidi 
Otto Lenz . . . . . Anton Lesser 
Lottie . . . . . Clare Corbett 
Peter X . . . . . Carl Prekopp 
Fischer . . . . . Michael Jibson 
Krista . . . . . Cassie Layton 
 
The songs are written by Nick Perry, Nathan Perry and Maureen Glackin, and the music is arranged and performed by Peter Ringrose. 
 
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

Babelsberg Film Studios, 1929. 
 
A major new movie is in production when its star Krista Wolff suddenly disappears. The head of the studio and the film's writer are desperate to find her. Each have their own reasons. 
 
 Nick Perry's suspenseful drama is set amid the creative ferment of 1920s Berlin, centred around Babelsberg Film Studio, the world's oldest large-scale film studio. Out of the darkness of military defeat, political chaos, poverty and hyperinflation springs the phenomenon of Weimar culture, a defiant celebration of humanity and artistic expression in all its diverse forms. 
 
People flock to Berlin to be a part of the cultural explosion. Writer Jonas Beck, actress Krista Wolff and war veteran Peter X are among them. 
 
 Jonas Beck . . . . . Paul Chahidi 
 Otto Lenz . . . . . Anton Lesser 
 Lottie . . . . . Clare Corbett 
 Peter X . . . . . Carl Prekopp 
Fischer . . . . . Michael Jibson 
 Krista . . . . . Cassie Layton 
 
 The songs are written by Nick Perry, Nathan Perry and Maureen Glackin, and the music is arranged and performed by Peter Ringrose. 
 
 Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

Nick Perry

Ian Dunnett Jnr

Full Cast

Scarlett Brookes

A BBC Radio sci-fi drama

A child in an East End garden plays with an imaginary friend. One day she goes to the bottom of the garden and never returns. A homeless man desperately tries to stay awake, believing that whenever he falls asleep he wakes up in a different century. A London Underground maintenance engineer walks the two miles between adjacent stations in less than four minutes. 
 
While travelling on the London Underground one afternoon, Alice meets the gaze of a man standing on the platform of a mysterious "ghost station". As her train hurtles into a tunnel, he's gone. She's convinced that the man was her brother Alan who has been missing presumed dead for the past five years. 
 
 This fleeting encounter is the beginning of Alice's increasingly bizarre, desperate and labyrinthine search for her missing brother, a journey that leads her back through time into London's past. 
 
 As Alice soon discovers, London is not one but many cities, a city of curious anomalies and dark secrets, of hidden portals to other dimensions, a city so vast and varied that the weird and the uncanny blend seamlessly with the ordinary, where the person sitting next to you on the bus, or walking beside you on the pavement, may in fact be a visitor from another time. 
 
Alice . . . . . Scarlett Brookes 
Alan . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr 
Mum/Jackie . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw 
Lizzie . . . . . Emma Handy 
Dorian/Doctor/Churchill . . . . . Roger Ringrose 
Simon/Morris . . . . . Joseph Ayre 
Kelechi/Jack . . . . . Stefan Adegbola 
Stefania/Jill . . . . . Charlotte East 
Child/Isaac . . . . . Aaron Gelkoff 
Pianist: Peter Ringrose 
 
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko

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