AuthorJohn Wyndham
NarratorFull Cast
Duration1h 29m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
Key StageKS4
PublisherBBC
VersionAbridged
When young Matthew starts talking to himself, and introduces his invisible friend Chocky to the family, his parents decide it's just a phase he is going through. But when Matthew starts explaining binary maths and anti-gravity propulsion, they begin to worry. Is Chocky really just the product of an over-active imagination, or something more? Based on a novel by John Wyndham, this full-cast radio drama was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Duration 6h 39m
The quiet English village of Midwich is the very last place that anything unusual ever happens. But one night in September something very strange occurs. The next day, no-one who lives there can remember anything about the day before. So what really went on, and why do all the women in the village suddenly find themselves in the same condition? Joh...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
John Wyndham's classic tale of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster comes alive in this full-cast BBC radio dramatisation. At first, the fireballs seemed to be nothing more than a dazzling display of lights in the sky, plunging into the deepest oceans and disappearing without trace. But when ships started sinking inexplica...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Jeremy Clyde
Duration 3h 3m
Midwich Cuckoos is one of the more scary and realistic sci fi stories of all time, filmed on at least two occasions as Village of the Damned. Set in a village in Gloucester England all the local young women become pregnant at exactly the same time and give birth to these evil blonde blue-eyed babies. THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is one of John Wyndham's bes...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 15m
When Bill Masen leaves hospital and goes into the centre of London, he finds that looting is rife as people are grabbing anything from the shelves of shops that they think they might find useful - mainly food. While surveying the scene he comes across an attractive young woman who also wasn't blinded in the comet shower, Josella. Together they retu...
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