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2. The Cylinder

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Monitoring a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery in space. Stars Felix Felton and Graydon Gould. From 1961.

Monitoring a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery in outer space.

Newspaper reporter, Tom Lambert has decided to reinvestigate the strange events of ten years before, concerning the "cosmic noise". Believing the inside story was never told, he's tracked down the only man who knows, Dr Hayward Petrie.

Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Dr Petrie's own recordings of the time when the detection of a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery...

Dr Petrie …. Felix Felton
Tom Lambert …. David Spenser
Clifford Brown …. Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder …. Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren …. Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick …. Harold Reese

Written by Peter Elliott Hayes

Producer: David Davis

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Service in April 1961.

30 minutes

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