The Slide - Victor Pemberton
Category: Radio Productions
Narrator: Maurice Denham
Tags: Radio Productions, Doctor Who, Full Cast, Adults
The Slide is a sci-fi radio serial in seven parts by Victor Pemberton first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966. It begins with an earthquake in Southern England. Then the local wildlife starts to disappear., This was Victor Pembertons first science fiction story which he submitted for the BBC TV series Doctor Who in 1964. The story was to feature the Doctor discovering sentient mud invading London from a fishing bay. It was rejected, but following a revision it was accepted as a radio serial. It inspired the 1968 Doctor Who story Fury from the Deep., CAST Professor Josef Gomez . Roger Delgado Hugh Deverill, MP . Maurice Denham Janet Marshall . Elisabeth Proud Dr Ken Richards . David Spenser Anna Deverill . Marion Mathie Tug Wilson . Stephen Jack Mrs Wilson . Miriam Margolyes Police Sergeant . Wilfred Babbage Inspector Baxter . Geoffrey Matthews Constable . Anthony Jackson Professor Landers . Rolf Lefebvre Professor Lippert . Allan McClelland Newscaster . Nigel Graham
