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Melanie Sputnik

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland

by Colin Hough.

A comic fantasy about solitude, grief and love in zero-gravity. Sandy Mack’s demise will prove to be the much-needed life-changing catalyst for stay-at-home daughter Melanie. In his Last Will and Testament he has requested that Melanie personally scatter his ashes in outer space. When the Russian space agency agrees to transport Mel and the desiccated Sandy into orbit, Melanie has to rely on herself for the first time in order to fulfil her mission.

Melanie ..... Anita Vettesse
Pavel ..... Robin Laing
Boris ..... Robert Jack
Dad ..... Matthew Zajac

Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane Show less

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