*shows
Welcome To Mars: Sensurround Version
Check out the full 12 part series originally broadcast on Resonance FM, at www.simonsound.co.uk/podcasts

Welcome To Mars (version 0.2)
Scientists recover bodies from a crashed flying saucer in the New Mexican desert while two women relax on a country club terrace. The American suburbs spread themselves out beneath a threatening alien sky, while the president plans for war with Iraq. Written and presented by novelist Ken Hollings, Welcome To Mars (Version 0.2) explores projected fantasies of exploration and invasion from the 1950s to today.

Featuring extracts from:
‘Welcome to Disturbia’ (originally broadcast by NPS Dutch National Radio and published in Strange Attractor Journal Volume One.)
‘Destroy All Monsters’, (available from Marion Boyars Publishers) and from the work in progress ‘Gunboy 21’. All other extracts are from the live touring version of ‘Welcome to Mars (Version 0.1)’
Theremin and Electronic Sound Production by Simon James. Originally broadcast live on Radio Reverb

The Death of Nelson
Written & performed by Robert Cohen, directed by Emma Gustafsson.
A tragicomedy about people and politics set over 18 years, between the high tide of Thatcherism and the brief hopeful dawn of the Blair age. The play documents the turbulent relationship between Richie, his godson Nelson, and Nelson’s parents – student radicals who name their son after Nelson Mandela, but whose radicalism is eroded on the long journey to employment in the Blair government. Meanwhile, as Nelson’s parents are losing their idealism, the once-conservative Richie is developing some idealism of his own.

Night Air - Botanical
From Australia's ABC network comes Night Air. Presented by Brent Clough, the first show looks at the world of plants, from Bill and Ben to John Wydhams 'Day of the Triffids'. This is experimental feature making at its best.
www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair

Space Music: Things Seen in the Skies
Written and read by Ken Hollings and produced by Simon James. The full article can be read in issue 233 of The Wire magazine.

Innovations in easy listening and electronic pop music mean that we don't have to leave home to explore outer space anymore. The experience can be brought directly to us here on Earth. From Les Baxter and the Saturnine piano of alien contactée Howard Menger to Joe Meek's new worlds and the Voyager II 1000 rpm disc, the weightless grandeur of the entire universe comes to totallyword.