Silent Running

It’s lonely out in space. It’s lonelier when you’re a plant-loving hippy and the rest of the crew not only hate you, but they’re totally indifferent about soil, plants and wildlife. When you’re only friends are droids and plants, but you feel like the one man to save what’s left of the Earth, in the hope that one day, there might be trees, lakes and nature there once again.

Today we trade the Nerdist Camp tent for a dome. So grab your watering can, load up the buggy, grab Huey, Dewey and Louis and head for the biodomes, but not too fast mind! For today we take a deep dive into the film, and the legacy of its message. Yes, today we look at Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 hippy epic, Silent Running.

This fortnight we are recommending

Kris:

• Mike and the Mechanics debut album (featuring Silent Running).
• Crime Next Door: The Cop, The Kidnap and the Killer (good time to explain family links to this story - Higley and the break-in at the flat).
• Wangsplaining
• Once We Were Spacemen

Andi:

• Paradise - Disney+
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Apple TV
• Scrubs, season 10 on Disney+ (Kris interject with The Roses mistaken identity story, Brooklin 99)
• How To Get To Heaven From Belfast - Netflix
• Disclosure Day - new trailer

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