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Mystery space tourist deaths land two planet cleaners with a new contract. Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy.

Mystery space tourist deaths land two planet cleaners with a new contract.

Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.

The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.

CAST:

Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
The Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska.

Producer: Peter Kavanagh

Made for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.

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