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Planet B: The Complete Series 1-3
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Chris Pavlo, full cast, Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
‘Planet B’ is a virtual world with the slogan: "Where you can be whatever you want to be." Users can download themselves into it and play as a life-size avatars in a 3D world.
When Lioba Fielding dies in the real world, her boyfriend John Armstrong downloads himself into Planet B in an attempt to find her avatar. As he travels between various worlds he becomes entangled in an array of strange scenarios, teleporting from each adventure to the next with his companion Medley, a "rogue avatar" who has no human controller. All the while, John and Medley are being watched by a dog-like antivirus programme called Cerberus who, along with the Planet B Corporation, considers the rogues to be a computer virus that need to be wiped out.
But John soon begins to believe that Lioba may still be alive somewhere in Planet B, and that the games he is playing may be more real and deadly than he first thought.
Cast:
Planet B…Adjoah Andoh
John Armstong…Gunnar Cauthery
Lioba Fielding…Donnla Hughes/Tessa Nicholson
Medley…Lizzy Watts/Claire Harry
Cerberus…Chris Pavlo
Kip Berenger…Joseph Cohen-Cole/Lloyd Thomas
Lead writer: Matthew Broughton
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole
Script Editor: James Robinson
Critic reviews
"Matthew Broughton's tale of a malfunctioning virtual world is engrossing." (The Stage)
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-22
Very enjoyable
Really enjoyed this audio drama, it had the right level of humour to be a really fun sci-fi story, with some great concepts.
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- toomes
- 01-09-19
Enthralling performance
The performance by all who took part was committed and and drew the listener in to a book that otherwise would have been a complicated and at times confusing and frustrating read.
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- Darren Hartshorne
- 03-01-20
good read
very interesting book gets better as it goes on very easy listening highly recommend it
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- diggergig
- 20-03-20
Retro Fun for Boomers
Do you ever imagine if the film 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' had been made as a radio drama in 1994?
Well IMAGINE NO MORE!!!
As a satire of the internet as viewed by someone in their seventies, this is gold.
I'm assuming that's what it is. And so it is gold. It IS gold. Hush now.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-01-20
Amazing and great imagination
This was really excitting, and kept u guessing whats next,
An amazing piece of sci-fi that
Douglas Adams would aprove of
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- Mr P J Thornton
- 11-09-21
Not up to scratch
BBC Drama is usually very good, this however is pitiful. Can’t really blame the actors they do ok with an awful script.
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- christopher booth
- 08-02-20
Poor story telling from an amateur.
If you like sci-fi, don't get this. It really lacks in substance, with a plot that feels its just filling in with fluff.
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