Host Planet Earth

Host Planet Earth was a BBC radio serial consisting of six half-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on the Light Programme between July and September 1967. It has since been rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Electronic sound and music was by Clive Webster of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

It detailed the course of a strange disease which first affects scientists working on a British rocketry programme. When British astronauts fall prey to the sickness in space, can they be allowed to return?

Episodes

 * 1) "The Beginning"
 * 2) "The Empty Minds"
 * 3) "The Pattern Emerges"
 * 4) "The Gemini Factor"
 * 5) "The Arrival"
 * 6) "The Price of Freedom"

With:
 * "Claire Stewart"        - Brenda Bruce
 * "Professor Ormskirk"    - Clive Morton
 * "David Holland"         - Alexander John
 * "Nat Blakey"            - Nigel Anthony
 * "Bill Cape"             - Ian Thompson
 * "Rathbone"              - Timothy Bateson
 * "Joseph Banks"          - Peter Tuddenham
 * "Mrs Hemming"           - Betty Hardy
 * "Rosemary Manning"      - Barbara Mitchell
 * "Technician"            - Preston Lockwood
 * Written by              - Anne Howell & Colin Cooper
 * Produced by             - Nesta Pain
 * Music by                - Clive Webster, BBC Radiophonic Workshop