The Voice of God By Simon Bovey. BBC Radio Drama

The Voice of God
Investigating a series of mysterious Australian earthquakes, seismologist Sam Rideout and her outback guide, Joshua, make a sinister discovery when they track the tremors to their epicentre inside an old British nuclear test site. Joshua is Aboriginal, and Maralinga is a sacred place to his people. But it also happens to be a top-secret facility, researching a sonic super-weapon that could lead to global catastrophe…
Broadcast in five episodes: Fields of Thunder, Silent Roar, Dreamtime Is Over, Blowback and Can You Hear This.
Joshua.......Matthew Dyktynski
Sam......Clare Corbett
Nick......David Tho
Walker/ Chairman...........Geoffrey Beevers
American/ Soldier 2........Gerard McDermott
Scientist 2........John Cummins
Soldier 1/ Scientist 1.......Delroy Brown
Soldier........Nick Sayce
Paxton.........Sophie Roberts
Written by Simon Bovey
Directed by Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC 7 in February 2006

Part 1 00:00
Fields of Thunder
Australia gets thirty to forty earth tremors a year. Yet they've had that many in the past two months alone. Seismologist, Sam Rideout and her outback guide Joshua Patamerri track them to an epicentre inside the old British nuclear test site, Maralinga.

Joshua is Aboriginal and this is a sacred place to his people. But it also happens to be top secret facility researching the use of infrasound as a weapon, and the source of the tremors - which Carl Walker, head of the project, wants to eliminate involving a mysterious death...

Carl Walker................... Geoffrey Beevors
Nick Bowman........... ... David Thorpe
Belinda Preedy............. Beth Chalmers
Sam Rideout..................Clare Corbett
Joshua Patamerri..........Matthew Dyktinski

Part 2 27:40
Silent Roar

The Colonel persuades Sam and Joshua to help him with his deadly infrasound project.

Joshua.........................Matthew Dyktynski
Sam..............................Clare Corbett
Nick..............................David Thorpe
Walker.........................Geoffrey Beevers
Belinda,.......................Beth Chalmers
Joel...............................Simon Bovey

Part 3 55:51
Dreamtime Is Over

Belinda believes the whole world should have the Voice: "everyone...or no-one". If the UN was allowed to share the technology, an arms race could be avoided. Nick is on the side of an arms race - it would result in a stalemate and thus peace. "No-one respects strength unless it's shown against them". A test is run. An alarm sounds - there's an emergency in the lab - Belinda is trapped in the test unit.

Joshua....................................Matthew Dyktynski
Sam.........................................Clare Corbett
Nick........................................David Thorpe
Walker..................................Geoffrey Beevers
Belinda.................................Beth Chalmers
Dalby....................................John Cummings
Soldier ............................... Delroy Brown
Schooner.............................Nick Sayce
Joel.........................................Simon Bovey

Part 4 1:24:01
Blowback

Nick battles to find the person responsible for his lover Belinda's death.

Joshua............................................Matthew Dyktynski
Sam..................................................Clare Corbett
Nick.................................................David Thorpe
Walker............................................Geoffrey Beevers
McCartney....................................Gerard McDermott
Dalby...............................................John Cummins
Schooner.......................................Nick Sayce
Paxton............................................Sophie Roberts
Joel..................................................Simon Bovey

Part 5 1:51:33
Can You Hear That

Conclusion of Simon Bovey's sci-fi thriller set in Australia. The Colonel plans to fire the sonic weapon and risk a global catastrophe.

Joshua....................................................Matthew Dyktynski
Sam..........................................................Clare Corbett
Nick..........................................................David Tho
Walker/ Chairman..............................Geoffrey Beevers
American/ Soldier 2...........................Gerard McDermott
Scientist 2...............................................John Cummins
Soldier 1/ Scientist 1..........................Delroy Brown
Soldier.....................................................Nick Sayce
Paxton......................................................Sophie Roberts

Written by Simon Bovey

Producer Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC 7 in February 2006.

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