This week we’re listening to a very modern adaptation of a classic story of sci-fi and horror, “Who Goes There?” from the BBC series, Chillers! The script is adapted from the novella of the same name written by John W. Campbell, Jr. (under the pen name Don A. Stuart). This tale of a small group of scientists in Antarctica who discover an alien creature frozen in the ice has been adapted and copied many times in many different ways. How will this version compare to its predecessors? Who among these men can be trusted? If you take the good, take the bad, take them both…what do you have there? Listen for yourself and find out!
UPDATE: Our guess for the episode’s initial broadcast is incorrect! That was a rebroadcast of an episode aired on August 22, 1952. Our thanks...
The gauntlet has been thrown! Our mysterious listener Sam claimed we were too afraid to go to the darkest corners of the Listener Library...
This week, our visit to the Listener Library brings us an episode of Lights Out, “Come to the Bank,” recommended to us by our...
