BBC Radio - The Slide - Victor Pemberton

Category: Adults, Full Cast, Radio Productions, Thriller
Language: EnglishKeywords: BBC Drama Radio
Written by Victor Pemberton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization
A vintage BBC Radio thriller serial.
An earthquake opens up a huge fissure in the new town of Redlow in Kent. Then a mysterious mud begins to ooze out, and all the birds and animals begin to die. On the instructions of the dominating Minister of Parliament Hugh Deverill, seismologist Josef Gomez is called in to examine the continuing earth tremors. But the effects of the oozing mud are having a strange effect on people, and Professor Gomez and his team’s findings begin to reveal a terrifying fact.
Hugh Deverill, MP … Maurice Denham
Professor Josef Gomez … Roger Delgado
Dr Ken Richards … David Spenser
Anna Deverill … Marion Mathie
Mrs Wilson … Miriam Margolyes
Inspector Baxter … Geoffrey Matthews
Sergeant Johnson … Wilfred Babbage
Professor Lambert … Rolf Lefebvre
Professor Lippert … Allan McClelland
Janet Marshall … Elisabeth Proud
“Tug” Wilson … Stephen Jack
Constable/First Journalist/Pilot … Anthony Jackson
RAF Corporal … Anthony Hall
Mrs Luke … Noel Hood
Written by Victor Pemberton
Directed by John Tydeman
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966
A vintage BBC Radio thriller serial.

An earthquake opens up a huge fissure in the new town of Redlow in Kent. Then a mysterious mud begins to ooze out, and all the birds and animals begin to die. On the instructions of the dominating Minister of Parliament Hugh Deverill, seismologist Josef Gomez is called in to examine the continuing earth tremors. But the effects of the oozing mud are having a strange effect on people, and Professor Gomez and his team’s findings begin to reveal a terrifying fact.

Hugh Deverill, MP … Maurice Denham
Professor Josef Gomez … Roger Delgado
Dr Ken Richards … David Spenser
Anna Deverill … Marion Mathie
Mrs Wilson … Miriam Margolyes
Inspector Baxter … Geoffrey Matthews
Sergeant Johnson … Wilfred Babbage
Professor Lambert … Rolf Lefebvre
Professor Lippert … Allan McClelland
Janet Marshall … Elisabeth Proud
“Tug” Wilson … Stephen Jack
Constable/First Journalist/Pilot … Anthony Jackson
RAF Corporal … Anthony Hall
Mrs Luke … Noel Hood

Written by Victor Pemberton
Directed by John Tydeman
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966