The Red Planet: The Most Frightening Thing on Mars Is an Order
In 1954, millions of BBC listeners climbed aboard the Discovery and set out for Mars.
What they found there was far more disturbing than little green men.
Charles Chilton’s Journey Into Space: The Red Planet begins as a grand adventure into the unknown and gradually becomes something darker: a story about strange signals, altered behavior, unquestioning obedience, and the terrifying possibility that the person beside you may no longer be acting of his own free will.
In this edition of Listen with Gilbert, we return to one of British radio’s great science-fiction serials and ask why The Red…
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