The Quanderhorn Xperimentations starring James Fleet, Ryan Sampson, Cassie Layton, Kevin Eldon, Freddie Fox, John Sessions and Rachel Atkins starts this Monday 25th June for six weeks at 11:30am on BBC Radio 4.
London. England.1952.
The War is over: it’s a time of peace, regeneration and hope. A Golden Age of scientific discovery and boundless optimism.
Unfortunately, it’s been 1952 for the past 65 years. And Prime Minister Winston Churchill (John Sessions) is beginning to worry people might notice. He suspects the phenomenon is the work of Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet); a brilliant, maverick scientific genius with absolutely no moral compass.
Despite the fact he’s saved the world from several Martian invasions, the attacks of the Mole People, the Troglodyte Shape-shifters and the Beatniks from Under the Sea, plus countless other sinister phenomena which threatened to rend the very fabric of reality, Churchill would dearly like to close him down – once and for all.
Why? Because he’s terrified. Of Quanderhorn’s reality-warping experiments, of his massive crowd-pleasing popularity. Of the unearthly secret locked in his cellar…
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