Aliens in The Mind 1977 - Pt.1/6 Island Genesis

Aliens of the Mind started life as an outline for TV’s Doctor Who by the show’s script editor Robert Holmes. Although not commissioned for the show, Holmes was asked to develop the idea for Radio 4. However work commitments meant that the scripts were ultimately written by Rene Bascilico based on Holmes’ original idea.

The six-part drama centers around the discovery, on a remote Scottish island, of a community of ‘human mutants’ capable of telepathy. A plan is in place to use them to control the British Government, and friends Curtis Lark (Vincent Price) and Hugh Baxter (Peter Cushing) join forces to combat them.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977.

‘Cushing is the perfect gentleman investigator, while Price could be reading a tax return and it would still be gripping. It might be old, but this screams quality, just as loudly as that howling wind.’ Radio Times (Jane Anderson)