Saturday Play – LandfallSaturday 19 March
2.30-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4
In this original science-fiction adventure by Mike Walker, five lost souls are recruited to travel to an abandoned planet where all they know is that they are to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation.
But their task becomes considerably more complicated when one of their party has a close encounter with the indigenous plant life – plant life which seems to have some very odd, very powerful properties. Soon they are battling not only to stay alive but to hang on to the very things that make them human.
The cast includes Nicola Miles-Wilden as Cally, Cyril Nri as Intaba, Clare Perkins as Hudson, Alex Tregear as JD and Adeel Akhtar as Hussam.
2.30-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4
In this original science-fiction adventure by Mike Walker, five lost souls are recruited to travel to an abandoned planet where all they know is that they are to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation.
But their task becomes considerably more complicated when one of their party has a close encounter with the indigenous plant life – plant life which seems to have some very odd, very powerful properties. Soon they are battling not only to stay alive but to hang on to the very things that make them human.
The cast includes Nicola Miles-Wilden as Cally, Cyril Nri as Intaba, Clare Perkins as Hudson, Alex Tregear as JD and Adeel Akhtar as Hussam.
The main things to highlight for this illustration I felt was the mining operation, the sinister/odd plant life, five characters and the fact its on another planet. I instantly thought of some great sci-fi imagery like the desolate research operations in John Carpenter's 'The Thing', the mining operation in 'Outland' and a few other elements from 'Aliens' etc. I could see it being very 80s sci-fi-esque.
Here's the approved sketch which I thought summed up all the elements without getting bogged down in heavy detail. A barren planet surface with an eerie desolate but illuminated mining operation. Snaking out from the mine are the tangled roots of some kind of plant life with the shadows of five characters approaching.
Here's the approved sketch which I thought summed up all the elements without getting bogged down in heavy detail. A barren planet surface with an eerie desolate but illuminated mining operation. Snaking out from the mine are the tangled roots of some kind of plant life with the shadows of five characters approaching.The sketch was approved and as you can see I didn't deviate from the sketch to the final illustration at all. A fun job.
