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1. The End Begins

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Brilliant flashes and a cloud of seeds. Bill Masen reveals how the world plunged into a plant nightmare. Stars Gary Watson.

It all begins with the end - the end of the world - almost.

It happens during a night of brilliant green flashes - meteors?

Perhaps - or satellite weapons. Who can say?

Survivor, Bill Masen recalls how the world was plunged into darkness with the dawning monstrous horror of ambulant plant life...

John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel was first published in 1951.

Dramatised in six parts by Giles Cooper.

Gary Watson ..…. Bill Masen
Freda Dowie …... Elspeth
Barbara Shelley …... Josella
Garard Green ..…. Umberto Palanguez
Ralph Truman ..…. Managing Director
Michael Deacon ..…. Young Bill
Peter Pratt …... Mr. Masen
Peter Baldwin …... Walter Lucknor
Jan Edwards …... Nurse
Rolf Lefebvre …... House Surgeon
Haydn Jones ..…. Publican
John Pullen ..…. Radio Commentator

This compelling tale has been made into a film, two TV series and three radio versions.

Music composed by David Cain.

Producer: John Powell.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in June 1968.

30 minutes

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