Gregory Lyons The Freebooter

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Afternoon Theatre: The Freebooter Thu 23rd Mar 1978, 15:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Gregory Lyons Amidst the dunes of a desert planet, an alien race is dying. They can only pray to the gods for help, men, all unknowing, become gods.   When a crippled space freighter lands for emergency repairs on a desolate world where tensions among the senior officers obstruct repair efforts and blind them to the planet's inhabitants, the last starving remnants of a race who exist only in the metallic dust of the planet and see the newcomers only as a source of food.     Narrator: Harold Kasket   Luke:….Peter Marinker Alison:….Mary Elliott Nelson Sven:……Steve Hodson Ike:…..Roy Spencer Weevel:….Henry Davies Alpha DeLta:…..Kenneth Shanley Lothan:….Carleton Hobbs Ria:….Brenda Kaye Keital:….David Alder Directed By: Graham Gauld FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Now and then the wind catches the silvery flakes which litter the desert sands. They flash and glitter in the sunlight, never rising more than a foot above the ground and then fall back and lie rocking, waiting for the next gust. Men have peered at this water-less world from their starships and then passed on. Though the atmosphere is breathable, there are no minerals worth exploiting. They have given it a number -- Bravo 74 -- and listed it as a dead world. But they are wrong. The silver dust is the wind-scattered dead of an alien race, and the few places where the glittering flakes are clumped together and lie like cloaks upon the sand, life persists. Each silver mantle is a Being, though man sees only the chance accumulation of shining dust, and the wraith-like creatures cry to one another in voices that men cannot hear." —

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.