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3. The Power

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The mysterious cylinder reveals its contents and, more frighteningly, awesome capabilities. Stars Felix Felton. From 1961.

The mysterious cylinder reveals its contents and - more terrifyingly - its awesome capabilities...

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 by Peter Elliott Hayes.

Dr Petrie …. Felix Felton
Tom Lambert …. David Spenser
Clifford Brown …. Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder …. Elaine MacNamara
Sir Edward Bancroft …. William Fox
Mr Morgan …. Basil Jones

Producer: David Davis

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in May 1961.

30 minutes

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