6. The Wonderful Visit

Untrue Stories

09/03/22 • 20 min

5.0

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Orwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale.

Wells arrives back on the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere.

CAST

Robin Johnson as George Orwell
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Chief Rutherford
Tara Court as Julia
Alexander Paul Walsh as Isaac Asimov
David Court as Ray Bradbury
Canavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the Morlock
Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
additional voices by Eve Morris, Robin, and Alexander

The music was by Robin Johnson, and sound effects were sourced from freesound.org.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

This episode marks Untrue Stories' first season finale. Producing Untrue Stories is the most fun I've had for ages. I'd like to thank everybody in the cast for being part of my daft thing, and the audiodrama communities on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, who are all much nicer than the ambient niceness on those hellsites. We're of course indebted to all the speculative fiction writers we've messed about with—George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Asimov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant, John Wyndham, and any I've forgotten—and to you for listening. Thank you!

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