The Day of the Triffids - BBC World Service 2001 Radio Adaptation - John Wyndham

Category: Adults, Classic, Radio Productions, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Apocalypse Cosy Catastrophe Radio Drama Science Fiction SF SHTF

Written by John Wyndham
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 192 Kbps
Dramatization

This excellent fast-paced adaptation got its first repeat this week since it premiered in 2001 in mono on the BBC World Service. I assume it was produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the novel. Now after 23 years, we finally get to hear it in stereo.

I cut the nearly five-minute recap of part one from the start of part two as no one will be waiting a week to hear the second half.

My recordings encoded at 192kbps 48kHz

John Wyndham’s classic 1951 post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel adapted for radio by Lance Dann.

PART ONE - The world is struck blind by a solar storm and millions of man-eating, walking plants are now free to roam across Britain.

PART TWO - With widespread blindness, society crumbles as the Triffids spread unabated. Bill goes in search of Josella to seek a haven where they can rebuild their shattered lives, but the Triffids aren’t the only threat to their survival.

Bill Masen …. Jamie Glover
Josella Playton …. Tracy-Ann Oberman
Colonel Jacques …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Walter Lucknor …. Gavin Muir
Coker …. Lee Ingleby
Miss Durrant …. Richenda Carey
The Nurse/Blind Girl …. Helen Ayres
The Blind Man …. Jonathan Forbes
Susan …. Lucy Trickett
Young Bill …. Oliver Cookson

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Music by Simon Russell.

Director: Rosalynd Ward