5. The Red Weed

' I stared down at the crumpled body of the parson. I had killed him - and then I heard a sound that terrified me.'

John Nicholson recalls more of the unfolding Martian horror...

Starring Paul Daneman.

Sci-fi novel by HG Wells first published in 1898.

Dramatised by Jon Manchip White.

John Nicholson .... Paul Daneman
Lieutenant ,.... Anthony Jackson
First Spokesman .... Denys Hawthorne
Second Spokesman .... Anthony Hall

Sound score by David Cain, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Producer: John Powell

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in July 1967.