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Voyage

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Dirk Maggs

by Stephen Baxter

Length 3 hours 26 minutes

Language English

Narrators Frank Lazarus, Laurel Lefkow, Mel Taylor, Michael Roberts, Rolf Saxon, Russell Bentley, Vincent Marzello, William Dufris & William Roberts

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An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs.

After the moon, Mars… What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme?

President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition is Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet.

Exploring mankind’s ambitions in space, Voyage chronicles the incredible story of what could have been.

Also included is an one-hour bonus programme featuring Dirk Maggs in conversation with Stephen Baxter, 20 years after Voyage was recorded. This wonderful, intimate conversation between the two friends is peppered with memories of the recording, the production process, and what inspired Stephen to pen such a well-loved story.

Cast:

Natalie York...Laurel Lefkow
Mike Conlig...William Dufris
Gregory Dana...Michael Roberts
Joe Muldoon...Vincent Marzello
Chuck Jones...Frank Lazarus
Jim Dana...Russell Bentley
Ben Priest...William Roberts
Ralph Gershon...Mel Taylor
Phil Stone...Rolf Saxon

Based on the novel by Stephen Baxter
Produced and directed by Dirk Maggs
Music by Wilfredo Acosta

Classics Fiction Science Fiction

Stephen Baxter is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and a multi-award winner. His many books include the classic Xeelee sequence, the Time's Odyssey novels (written with Arthur C. Clarke) and Time Ships, a sequel to H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, a Doctor Who novel, The Wheel of Ice, and most recently the epic, far-future novels Proxima and Ultima. He co-wrote the Long Earth series with Terry Prachett. He lives in Northumberland.