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Fellow astronauts, Astronaut Bruce has given you a treat - he's managed to dig up more of the South African series, Probe.  I'd previously posted a few here and here.  Unfortunately, someone lumped several all together instead of leaving them as individual 4-minute episodes, but it's nice to have them all the same.

block one
(49.9 mb; 43:39 min.)

block two
(48.1 mb; 42:05 min.)

When Hari Seldon founded the First and Second Foundations and invented Psychohistory, who knew it would spawn one of the BBC's first stereo dramatizations?

There is far too mush info on Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, as well as it's sequels and prequels, so follow this link to the  Wikipedia article to broaden your horizons...

These are the last four episodes.

Part Five
(27.3 mb; 59:45 min.)

Part Six
(27.7 mb; 1:00:32 min.)

When Hari Seldon founded the First and Second Foundations and invented Psychohistory, who knew it would spawn one of the BBC's first stereo dramatizations?

There is far too mush info on Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, as well as it's sequels and prequels, so follow this link to the  Wikipedia article to broaden your horizons...

These are the first four episodes - next week I'll post the remaining four.

Part One
(27.5 mb; 1:00:13 min.)

Part Two
(25.6 mb; 56:02 min.)

A strange light appears in the sky above the town of Inchbrae, growing ever larger, then the idyllic little town is gone.  Or is it?  Despite a visible explosion, the town and its inhabitants seem intact.  At first, anyway...

Marty Ross, the writer who brought us Catch My Breath, preceded his Scottish gothic tale with this sci-fi thriller.

Part One
(25 mb; 27:27 min.)

Part Two
(25.4 mb; 27:51 min.)

Part Five
(27 mb; 29:34 min.)

When philologist Elwin Ransom seeks room and board on a hiking trip, he ends up shanghaied and brought to the strange world of Malacandra...

Here's a Wikipedia excerpt about C. S. Lewis' Out Of The Silent Planet...

is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy written by C. S. Lewis, sometimes referred to as the Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy. The other volumes are Perelandra (also published as Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength, and a fragment of a sequel was published posthumously as The Dark Tower. The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).

According to his biographer A.N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.

This is the second half of a version produced by the BBC in 2004.

Part Seven
(17.6 mb; 30:47 min.)

Part Eight
(17.3 mb; 30:16 min.)

Part Eleven
(17.5 mb; 30:40 min.)

When philologist Elwin Ransom seeks room and board on a hiking trip, he ends up shanghaied and brought to the strange world of Malacandra...

Here's a Wikipedia excerpt about C. S. Lewis' Out Of The Silent Planet...

is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy written by C. S. Lewis, sometimes referred to as the Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy. The other volumes are Perelandra (also published as Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength, and a fragment of a sequel was published posthumously as The Dark Tower. The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).

According to his biographer A.N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.

This is the first half of a version produced by the BBC in 2004.

Part One
(17.7 mb; 31:03 min.)

Part Two
(16.9 mb; 29:34 min.)

Part Five
(17.5 mb; 30:42 min.)

When philologist Elwin Ransom seeks room and board on a hiking trip, he ends up shanghaied and brought to the strange world of Malacandra...

Here's a Wikipedia excerpt about C. S. Lewis' Out Of The Silent Planet...

is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy written by C. S. Lewis, sometimes referred to as the Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy. The other volumes are Perelandra (also published as Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength, and a fragment of a sequel was published posthumously as The Dark Tower. The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).

According to his biographer A.N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.

This is the second half of a version produced by the BBC in 1977 - next week I'll post the 2004 version.

An astronaut wondered - are there versions of the other two books in the series?  I'm almost certain there are, so if anyone would care to share, I'll post them here.

Part Five
(13.7 mb; 30:02 min.)

When philologist Elwin Ransom seeks room and board on a hiking trip, he ends up shanghaied and brought to the strange world of Malacandra...

Here's a Wikipedia excerpt about C. S. Lewis' Out Of The Silent Planet...

is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy written by C. S. Lewis, sometimes referred to as the Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy. The other volumes are Perelandra (also published as Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength, and a fragment of a sequel was published posthumously as The Dark Tower. The trilogy was inspired and influenced by David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus (1920).

According to his biographer A.N. Wilson, Lewis wrote the novel after a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien in which both men lamented the state of contemporary fiction. They agreed that Lewis would write a space-travel story, and Tolkien would write a time-travel one. Tolkien's story only exists as a fragment, published in The Lost Road and other writings (1987) edited by his son Christopher.

This is the first half of a version produced by the BBC in 1977 - it'll be followed up by a 2004 version.

Part One
(13.5 mb; 29:30 min.)

Two young female criminals escape prison and try hitchhiking to Glasgow, only to find themselves in the middle of the countryside in a house that may be haunted - and, if they're lucky, that's the worst of their problems...

In addition to the series, I've got an interview with writer Marty Ross (Ghost Zone).

Part One
(24.6 mb; 26:58 min.)

Newspaper reporter Ed Malone wants to impress a woman, so he begs for a real he-man story for him to follow up on.   McArdle, his editor, sends him to adventurer Professor Challenger.  Before long Malone finds himself in a strange jungle surrounded by animals who, by all rights, should be long dead...

Part One
(21 mb; 46:03 min.)