Voyage: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Dirk Maggs Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

An alternative background of the united states space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs.

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

President Nixon, by using former chief executive JFK, has just simply green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition can be Natalie York, a geologist who dangers everything she loves for the opportunity to head to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 check pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam Battle hero about Voyage: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Dirk Maggs intent on becoming the first African American to attain another planet.

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

Also included is an one-hour bonus programme featuring Dirk Maggs in conversation with Stephen Baxter, twenty years after Voyage was recorded. This fantastic, intimate conversation between the two friends is normally peppered with remembrances of the recording, the production procedure, and what inspired Stephen to pencil such a well-loved tale.

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 Rock…Rolf Saxon

Predicated on the novel by Stephen Baxter

Produced and aimed by Dirk Maggs