The Martian Chronicles

Based on the novel written by Ray Bradbury
Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle

Derek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell lead an all-star cast in The Martian Chronicles, a thrilling new dramatisation for BBC Radio 4, reimagining Ray Bradbury’s timeless fable of doomed Martian colonisation.

When the first expedition to Mars mysteriously disappears, Earth sends a second to find out what happened. But the real mission is classified. And only Captain Wilder knows the truth.

Spender, an anthropologist on Wilder’s crew, attempts to prevent the colonisation that she believes will eradicate the last of an ancient people living on Mars. But to what lengths will she go?

As the honourable but duty-bound Captain Wilder tracks the now rogue Spender into the Martian mountains, the future of this ancient planet is at stake.

Meanwhile, Earth itself teeters on the brink of its own global catastrophe as the very survival of humanity hangs in the balance.

This thrilling reimagining of Ray Bradbury’s classic The Martian Chronicles is as relevant to our dangerous times as the original stories were to theirs.

Dramatised for radio by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle.

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