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'Return to the Lost Planet'
A serial play by Angus MacVicar
5 - 'the Voice of Hesikos'
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

The explorers meet the highly civilised people of Hesikos, whose methods of thought transference are so advanced that their speech sounds to each explorer like his own native tongue. Solveg, the ruler and chief historian, tells Them that thousands of years ago his people invented the atom bomb, but and all other explosives were eventually outlawed, end for many centuries the Hesikians have lived in charity and goodwill.

Contributors

Play By:
Angus MacVicar
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Dr Lachlan McKinnon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Jeremy Grant:
Lesley Fraser
Janet Campbell:
Celia Struthers
Spike Stranahan:
Bryden Murdoch
Professor Hermanoff:
James MacTaggart
Solves:
Leonard Maguire
Asa:
Patricia Leckie
Dorman:
Douglas Murchae

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