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The Twelve Maidens

BBC Radio sci-fi drama from 1971
from archive.org

Researchers develop a system than can detect sentient life. But some unknown force has other ideas.


'Just think what you have here. Biodar - the first radar in the world as far as we know, that can pick up sentient life and locate it exactly ...'


Working on Biodar, Peter Brent and Margaret Govan are puzzled because Maiden Tor, a nearby hilltop crowned with a circle of stones - The Twelve Maidens - comes across as a complete blank on their screens. And while investigating the location, they make a gruesome discovery...


Peter Brent .... Martin Jarvis
Margaret Govan .... Patricia Gallimore
Sgt George Blake .... Sean Arnold
Dr Carl Ewing .... Haydn Jones
Joe Gurney .... Douglas Blackwell
Reuben Fairfax .... Patrick Tull
Bridget Williams .... Eva Stuart
Donald Williams .... Fraser Kerr
Rex Andrews .... Antony Higginson
Susan Platt .... Margaret Robertson
Professor Philip Jessup .... Lewis Stringer
Bill .... Alan Reid
Lt Cpl Davis .... Roger Gale


Written in six parts by Stewart Farrar
Directed by David H Godfrey


First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1971

  1. The Black Arc (25.1Mb)
  2. White Against Black (25.1Mb)
  3. The New Witch (25Mb)
  4. Black Midsummer (24.9Mb)
  5. The Challenge (25Mb)
  6. The Final Round (25.1Mb)

MP3 files hosted by archive.org.