-
Journey Into Space: Operation Luna
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- Narrated by: Alfie Bass, Andrew Faulds, Guy Kingsley Poynter, full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $21.31
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Journey into Space: The World in Peril
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- By: Charles Chilton
- Narrated by: Don Sharp, Alfie Bass, Andrew Faulds, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charles Chilton's classic science-fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects, and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger to another as, together, they faced the unknown perils of space.
-
-
Brilliant Old-Time Radio Drama
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 04-13-14
By: Charles Chilton
-
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 30-Episode Collection
- By: Dennis Green, Anthony Boucher, Bruce Taylor, and others
- Narrated by: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program. Digitally Remastered by Timely Audio.
-
-
Still great
- By Kindle Customer on 10-09-20
By: Dennis Green, and others
-
Captain Blood
- A Radio Dramatization
- By: Rafael Sabatini, Jerry Robbins
- Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. With battles on sea and on land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, Captain Blood is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale!
-
-
Swashbuckling Radio for Modern Listeners
- By Troy on 04-01-13
By: Rafael Sabatini, and others
-
Journey into Space: Frozen in Time
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- By: Charles Chiltern
- Narrated by: David Jacobs, Michael Beckley, Alan Marriott, and others
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Between 1953 and 1958, Journey into Space attracted millions of listeners, gripped by the mystery and promise of space exploration in weekly cliffhanging instalments. In this thrilling new episode, the spaceship Ares has been heading back to Earth for 30 years, with the crew in suspended animation—except Captain Jet Morgan, whose sleeper pod failed. With the ship six months from home, Jet picks up an SOS from Mars, and wakes the others to go on a rescue mission.
-
-
Excellent Reprisal of a Lost Art
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 03-05-14
By: Charles Chiltern
-
The Martian Chronicles
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
-
-
The Original. Great Stories, Great Narrator.
- By Troy on 04-05-16
By: Ray Bradbury
-
Classic Radio Sci-Fi: BBC Drama Collection
- Five BBC radio full-cast dramatisations
- By: Stanislaw Lem, Karel Čapek, Mary Shelley, and others
- Narrated by: William Gaunt, full cast, Robert Glenister, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Titles include Frankenstein (1994), The Time Machine (2009), The Lost World (1975), R.U.R. (1989) and Solaris (2007). Accompanying this collection is a bonus PDF file featuring extensive sleeve notes by Andrew Pixley.
-
-
CHAPTER LIST:
- By Anonymous User on 08-28-18
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
-
Journey into Space: The World in Peril
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- By: Charles Chilton
- Narrated by: Don Sharp, Alfie Bass, Andrew Faulds, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charles Chilton's classic science-fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects, and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger to another as, together, they faced the unknown perils of space.
-
-
Brilliant Old-Time Radio Drama
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 04-13-14
By: Charles Chilton
-
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 30-Episode Collection
- By: Dennis Green, Anthony Boucher, Bruce Taylor, and others
- Narrated by: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Tom Conway
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From 1943 onward, most shows were written or adapted by the team of Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher or Green and Leslie Charteris who replaced Meiser who left the show over her disagreements with a sponsor over the amount of violence in the program. Digitally Remastered by Timely Audio.
-
-
Still great
- By Kindle Customer on 10-09-20
By: Dennis Green, and others
-
Captain Blood
- A Radio Dramatization
- By: Rafael Sabatini, Jerry Robbins
- Narrated by: Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood. With battles on sea and on land, daring escapes, sword duels to the death, a touch of romance, and a magnificent score by Jeffrey Gage, Captain Blood is a swashbuckling adventure on a very grand scale!
-
-
Swashbuckling Radio for Modern Listeners
- By Troy on 04-01-13
By: Rafael Sabatini, and others
-
Journey into Space: Frozen in Time
- The BBC Radio Sci-Fi Drama
- By: Charles Chiltern
- Narrated by: David Jacobs, Michael Beckley, Alan Marriott, and others
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Between 1953 and 1958, Journey into Space attracted millions of listeners, gripped by the mystery and promise of space exploration in weekly cliffhanging instalments. In this thrilling new episode, the spaceship Ares has been heading back to Earth for 30 years, with the crew in suspended animation—except Captain Jet Morgan, whose sleeper pod failed. With the ship six months from home, Jet picks up an SOS from Mars, and wakes the others to go on a rescue mission.
-
-
Excellent Reprisal of a Lost Art
- By Niels J. Rasmussen on 03-05-14
By: Charles Chiltern
-
The Martian Chronicles
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
-
-
The Original. Great Stories, Great Narrator.
- By Troy on 04-05-16
By: Ray Bradbury
-
Classic Radio Sci-Fi: BBC Drama Collection
- Five BBC radio full-cast dramatisations
- By: Stanislaw Lem, Karel Čapek, Mary Shelley, and others
- Narrated by: William Gaunt, full cast, Robert Glenister, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Titles include Frankenstein (1994), The Time Machine (2009), The Lost World (1975), R.U.R. (1989) and Solaris (2007). Accompanying this collection is a bonus PDF file featuring extensive sleeve notes by Andrew Pixley.
-
-
CHAPTER LIST:
- By Anonymous User on 08-28-18
By: Stanislaw Lem, and others
Publisher's Summary
Charles Chilton's classic science-fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects, and atmospheric music engaged listeners as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger to another as, together, they faced the unknown perils of space.
In this, the first series of Journey into Space, Captain Jet Morgan and his crew battle to be the first people to land on the Moon, but soon discover they aren't alone up there...
Production Credits
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips.
Cast
Jet Morgan - Andrew Faulds
Lemmy Barnett - Alfie Bass
Doc - Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Mitch - David Williams
Other parts by John Cazabon, Alan Keith, David Jacobs and Deryck Guyler.
The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were erased. This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme 26 March 1958 - 18 June 1958.
More from the same
What listeners say about Journey Into Space: Operation Luna
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Niels J. Rasmussen
- 02-13-14
Well Worth It Despite A Slow Start...
Any additional comments?
I've been a fan of old radio shows for many years now but this is the first series I have encountered that is structured in a serial format in which each episode plays off of the previous one's ending.
What results, is one long, 7-hour radio play. This may sound unappealing to those who lack an imagination, but - for those lucky enough to be endowed with a healthy one - it is pure gold.
I am a huge fan of the 50's radio program "X-Minus One", but each half hour episode can only pack in so much detail. Journey Into Space has the luxury of time which allows it to go into brilliant sci-fi detail as I've never heard before. The first two episodes are a little slow and boring considering that human beings have since already landed on the lunar surface, so it's hard to peak your interest. But trust me, if you stay with it...It gets INSANE.....
9.4 / 10
7 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Clendon
- 04-04-16
A classic sci-fi radio serial!
If you love sci-fi or classic radio dramas, you owe it to yourself to listen to Journey Into Space.
-
Overall
- Luis
- 06-15-11
Different...a view of the 50's
The series was good and it let you see how the average person view space in the 50's. It reminded me of movie from the 50's.
-
Overall
- Paul
- 09-14-07
outdated but good
It's outdated in some of it's contents but it is still good to sit back and listen to, I have listened to all of the radio broadcast on my MP3, Luna. Red planet and in peril, although they got some thing incorrect IE TV Signals had not reached mars!! and the radio needed a huge amount of power to reach earth, when Voyager signals come to earth even now and only have the strength of a torch bulb. What I say is to forget what we know now and just enjoy it, It would may a good movie, If I had the money I would make it( up dated of course).
-
Overall

- Nick
- 12-06-06
Journey into space
A top decision to carry this story. Wonderfully done and evocative of a byegone era when science fiction stories were free of todays overpowering special effects. I hope the ''Red Planet'' and ''World in Peril'' are introduced soon.
16 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- P. D. Smith
- 04-27-08
Wonderful dramatisation
This is a great story. It was originally on BBC Radio in the 50's (before the actual moon landings) and it's interesting to hear how the author thought they would be.
Strange things start happening shortly after take-off and we get 6 1/2 hours of cliff-hanger after cliff-hanger, with great voice acting. You just want to keep listening to find out what's going to go wrong next :)
The kids enjoyed listening to this on the way to school and kept wanting to stay longer in the car so they could hear to the end of the episode.
The only thing that got slightly on my nerves was the 50's attempt to make 'spacy' music (which is over-loud and a bit grating), but quick action on the volume control sorted that out.
I'm looking forward to downloading the second series (also on Audible).
10 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Brian A. Jones
- 09-08-18
Memories of a bygone age.
This series is still as of Journey into Space :is still as captivating today as it was when as a radio series in 1963 the only difference now is you don’t have to wait from one Monday to the next to hear the next enthralling episode thanks to AMAZON audiobooks you can now listen via prime for free and if you get Operation Luna listen to EPISODE 14 . Yes it says 1-13 .!!!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- S(ean)
- 08-24-17
Make Sure To Listen to The Last Chapter!
The last chapter is an interview with Charles Chiltern who wrote it. I was particularly moved by his account of the poor First World War wounded soldiers who worked at the BBC at the time.
Overall I love this series it's a true classic!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Chill
- 03-20-15
Brilliant
This is a production that does not age and is as good now as when it was first broadcast. I also have The Red Planet and World in Peril which are equally as enjoyable.
A well written set of Space Adventures perfect for Radio, what other broadcast medium could set an entire episode in the dark and get away with it.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Marsh
- 02-06-20
gallantry, innocence , exploration and wonder
a fabulously gallant romp though space, with gentleman whose comradery and story telling takes you on every step.
it comes from a time when introspection and self examination propelled us into the 20th century in style and oh how we could do with some of that now.
make sure you listen to the cast and writer section at the end. wonderful
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall

- Cliff Hope
- 06-22-19
Back in time
Wonderful memory from my childhood. Loved this program it's just as I remember it and real future ideas from so long ago .
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- WMS
- 06-03-19
Great for a nostalgic classic
I really enjoyed listening to this. it really had that classic sci fi style to it warts and all. although there weren't really many events throughout the story, if you take into consideration the fact that it was a BBC radio production in the 50/60s it really gives you that nostalgic feel akin to watching an old movie like Forbidden Planet. I highly recommend listening to the commentary at the end from the people who wrote and starred in it, there are some wonderful bits of history around the second world war and the kind of honourable British things the BBC did for war veterans during that time.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- flibbertygibert
- 07-29-18
They Don't Make 'em Like They Used To!
thoroughly entertaining, 50"s sci-fi at it's best.
will make you want to download the next series.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall

- diva bubble
- 03-13-18
I really enjoyed listening to this again
I used to listen to this on the radio and was so glad to find it here. Now all I have to do is find the rest of his radio plays
1 person found this helpful