OFF: Lemmy radio programme/Last Laugh

[Chris Warburton]

Yup, a very famous piece of broadcast sf - I think there might even have
been more than one series of stuff featuring "Jet Morgan" - I can't comment
on the quality, never having heard it, but I believe it's available on BBC
cassette - you could probably get it through yr local public library.

As for characters called Lemmy, I refer you to Godard's "Alphaville, Une
Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution" (1965) "a dazzling amalgam of film noir
& science fiction"

ChrisW

At 08:46 11.10.1999 +0100, you wrote:
>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."
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>----- 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
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>> 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
>>
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