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1. The Unseeing Eye

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Reporter Tom Lambert reinvestigates how Dr Petrie detected strange signals from the rim of space. Stars Felix Felton. From 1961.

"A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more....."

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...

Written in six parts by Peter Elliott Hayes

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

Producer: David Davis

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1961.

30 minutes

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Mon 30 Jun 202500:30
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