The Shadow of Mir

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Nick Fisher - The Shadow of Mir

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Nick Fisher - The Shadow of Mir

A Russian bureaucrat arrives on the Mir space station with a secret agenda.

How will the crew of the Mir space station react when a Russian bureaucrat arrives with a secret agenda?  Stars Etela Pardo. 

Valentina Savitskaya, a middle-aged Russian bureaucrat, is sent into space to check the future viability of space station Mir. 

As her real motive is gradually revealed, a tense power game is played out. 

Nick Fisher’s sci-fi drama stars Etela Pardo.  

Valentina Savitskaya    ......    Etela Pardo
Stephen Childs    ......    Jamie Glover
Dmitri Makarov    ......    Philip Jackson 
Vladimir Gubarev    ......    Michael Culver
Ricky Gardner    ......    Harry Ditson
Lyahkov    ......    Olegario Fedoro 
Mission Control    ......    Sam Douglas
Girl    ......    Keeley Hawes 
Corporal    ......    Ian Gelderl 
TV presenter    ......    Toni G Barry .

Recorded on location at Cranfield College of Aeronautics. 

Director: John Dryden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.

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