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During an abnormal heatwave in March, the air becomes thick
and dull. Nothing moves - you can almost hear the silence.
Redlow, a new town in Kent, was the dream of self-made man,
Hugh Deverill, MP. At a crowded and restless town meeting,
Janet Marshall faints due to the stifling atmosphere. She
is helped by her friend Dr Ken Richards - just as a sudden
earthquake tears the room apart. A long, deep crack in a road
is discovered nearby, and powerful tremors are felt along
the South Coast. When torrents of seething mud start emerging
from the fissure, scientist Josef Gomez is called in: the
mud contains a special organism that can control people's
minds. And it can kill. Declared a disaster area, Redlow becomes
a state of emergency. Then other fissures appear...
Forming
part of BBC Audio's third wave of Classic Radio Sci-Fi releases
(along with The
Kraken Wakes and Childhood's
End) this is a seven-part original radio drama
serial written by Victor Pemberton.
Something
of a legend in radio sci-fi terms, this 1966 serial is absent
from the radio archive but has been made available to the
BBC by the writer himself. It concerns the residents of a
quiet English village besieged by a sentient mud, and their
efforts, along with the expert Professor Gomez, to battle
against it. The serial is especially notable to Doctor
Who fans, as Pemberton later went on to become script
editor of Doctor Who and also wrote an audio adventure
(Doctor
Who and the Pescatons). The Slide also
stars Roger Delgado, who went on to play The Master in Doctor
Who.
While
entertaining enough, this production hasn't aged as gracefully
as it might have done. However, sci-fi fanatics will be glad
that this is finally available to buy.
Nick
Smithson
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