Leviathan '99 by Ray Bradbury

**** This programme was suggested by Max Coleman and David Lewis-Burry as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****

The year is 2099.

Strange new ships sail toward the stars instead of under them.

Ishmael, the sole survivor of a deadly encounter, tells us of his rocket ship's vengeful, blind captain, who sacrifices his crew in pursuit of a dangerous celestial object....

Starring Denys Hawthorne and Christopher Lee..

Ray Bradbury's sci-fi radio drama reimagines Herman Melville's Moby Dick in outer space.

Ishmael .... Denys Hawthorne
Captain of the Cetus 7 .... Christopher Lee
Quell .... Robert Eddison
The Warning Man .... Walter Fitzgerald
Father Ellery Colworth / Schweitzer .... Denis McCarthy
Redleigh .... Alexander John
Voice Clock / Smith .... Ian Thompson
Aristotle / Metal Worker .... Haydn Jones
Radio Voice .... Anthony Jackson
The Small One / Rogers .... Christopher Bidmead
Shore .... Nigel Clayton
Radar Man .... Leroy Lingwood
Lightfall One Captain / Socrates .... Frank Henderson
Rachel's Captain / Plato .... Ralph Truman

Electronic music and sounds by Tristram Cary.
Technical direction by Harry Catlin.

Adapted and produced by HB Fortuin.

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 in May 1968.

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