OFF: Lemmy radio programme/Last Laugh

[Kevin Perry]

It was the 50's - I remember my dad listening to it and saying how he
remembered it from being a boy...

Kevin Perry
Sonic Energy Authority
http://freespace.virgin.net/kevin.perry/

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous;
and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its
duties."

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list BOC-L <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: OFF: Lemmy radio programme/Last Laugh


> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Kevin Perry wrote:
>
> > There was: it was a serial on Radio 2 that was really, really bad - no,
it
> > wasn't an adaptation of TotH - that would have been (marginally - it's a
> > lousy story, and as for Queens of Deleria...) better!  Lemmy was the
really
> > whingy character (if I recall rightly) who was the engineer.
>
>         Well, my housemate has just mailed me to say that he remembered
> the title, ("Journey Into Space") and with this had dug it up on the web,
> and among other characters it features a Mitch Mitchell and Doc Matthews.
> The other one was Jet Morgan and the whole thing was by a Charles Chilton.
> He also claims it was 50s; can this be so? With both a Lemmy and a Mitch
> in it? Did they both listen to it as boys or something? Is the famous
> Lemmy-a-fiver story up the pipe or is it all the merest coincidence? Shall
> I go to bed? Yes, perhaps I shall... Yours,
>                                             Jon
>