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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

on BBC Home Service Basic

by JULES VERNE freely adapted as a serial in eight parts by Lance Sieveking
Part 6
The year 1866 is nearly at an end. The fleet of armed frigates sent out by Washington continue to scour the seven seas for the mysterious monster. The Admiralty in London thinks that the Americans may be mistaken. Perhaps the enormous Thing may not be a prehistoric monster but an unknown kind of machine which can move about underwater! A theory greeted everywhere with hoots of derision.
Professor Aronnax, Elbow, and Ned
Land, are believed drowned. But in fact they are on board the only submarine in the world, the Nautilus, prisoners of Captain Nemo, who explains how his vessel is worked by something called ' electricity.'
Produced by Norman Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Jules Verne
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Narrator:
Philip Morant
Marysia:
Beverley Dunn
Tadzik:
Paul Bogdan
Ned Land:
Errol MacKinnon
Captain Nemo:
Julian Somers
Prof Pierre Aronnax:
Olaf Pooley
Norman Elbow:
Robert Webber
Senator Blanco:
Tom Whyte
Henry Philips:
Eric Anderson
George Barker:
Humphrey Morton
David Benfield:
Keith Williams

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