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1. The Blurring

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4 Extra Debut. Professor Challenger faces his greatest danger yet: Earth will pass through a poisonous ether belt. Read by Peter Pacey.

Just returned from his famous adventure in the Lost World, the resourceful Professor George Challenger faces his greatest danger yet:

Earth will pass through a belt of poisonous ether and mankind might not survive...

Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - a sequel to The Lost World - first published in The Strand magazine in 1913.

Abridged in five parts by Donald Bancroft.

Read by Peter Pacey.

Producer: Maurice Leitch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1983.

15 minutes

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Tue 26 Aug 202501:45
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