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Host Planet Earth was a BBC radio serial consisting of six half-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on the Light Programme between July and September 1967. It has since been rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. [1] Electronic sound and music was by Clive Webster of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

It detailed the course of a strange disease which first affects scientists working on a British rocketry programme. When British astronauts fall prey to the sickness in space, can they be allowed to return?

Episodes

  1. "The Beginning" [2]
  2. "The Empty Minds" [3]
  3. "The Pattern Emerges" [4]
  4. "The Gemini Factor" [5]
  5. "The Arrival" [6]
  6. "The Price of Freedom" [7]

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