Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space: The Return From Mars

CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RETURN FROM MARS (320kbs-m4a/201mb/1hr28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th November 2026

Captain Jet Morgan and the crew of the spaceship Discovery return to Earth, thinking they've been away six years - only to discover they've somehow been transported into the 21st century...

1981 sequel to Charles Chilton's hugely successful 20-part epic series of The Red Planet and The World in Peril - originally broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in the 1950s.

Jet Morgan .... John Pullen
Lemmy .... Anthony Hall
Doc .... Ed Bishop
Mitch .... Nigel Graham
Cassia .... Elizabeth Proud
Pilot .... Graham Faulkner
Control .... Sean Probert
Supervisor .... John Webb
Nichols .... Patrick Barr
Videophone .... John McAndrew
Councillor .... Stephen Garlick
Wrist Radio .... David Bradshaw
Sotteer .... Christopher Scott

Script by Charles Chilton

Director Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981.