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Science Fiction
Science Fiction
SF68.
SF68 puts a speculative idea into a recognisable human situation and lets the consequences develop. An unfamiliar discovery or future possibility matters because someone must respond to it, giving the science-fiction premise an immediate dramatic shape. Science-fiction stories interpreted by a South African radio company.
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SF68: Programme Guide.
A scientific possibility becomes a human problem. SF 68 uses changing speculative stories to explore what people do when technology, an unfamiliar world or an altered rule makes ordinary judgement unreliable.
Broadcast history.
The South African Springbok Radio anthology was produced in 1968, before Michael McCabe’s later Beyond Midnight. It belongs to a separate production history from American programmes such as Dimension X or X Minus One.
Cast and creative team.
McCabe produced and presented the series, adapting science-fiction material for radio. A. Bertram Chandler’s bibliographic record identifies his story The Cage as one source. Actors and individual story authors vary between productions.
Where to begin.
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
The year in the title helps identify this particular programme, not the fictional future in which every story occurs. Another anthology’s performance of the same source story can have a completely different company.
Listening appeal.
Choose The Death Dust or The Will for a self-contained beginning. Listen to the idea that changes the characters’ situation and the consequences that follow once they accept it.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 18 public recordings. The eighteen records form the available collection, without certifying every original transmission. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
18 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
18 episodes available.
The Death Dust
25:57The Will
24:31Homecoming
26:36The Last Rites
25:01The Sound Of Thunder
28:57The Quest
24:39The Cage
25:59Jenny With Wings
25:23The Castaway
26:42The New Wine
24:40The Answer
25:04Wanted In Surgery
27:18Grenville's Planet
27:33Space Cow
29:08Watchbird
24:10Routine Exercise
26:48
Questions about SF68.
Is SF68 a season of X Minus One?
It is a separate South African radio anthology.
Does every story share one continuing crew?
The anthology presents separate speculative situations.
