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 as Ishmael and Christopher Lee as The Captain.

Written by Ray Bradbury. Author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for John Huston's 1956 film version of Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab.

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 Third Programme in May 1968.

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