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Episode 3

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With the planetary decontaminationists on the run, Arnold's apologetic call for melting Earth is traced. Stars Mark Bonnar.

With the planetary decontaminationists on the run, Arnold's apologetic call for melting Earth is traced.

Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.

The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.

CAST:

Arnold 鈥�. Chris Larner
Gregor 鈥�. Mark Bonner
Evan 鈥�. Trevor Cooper
Office 鈥�. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum 鈥�. Sam Dale
Jo 鈥�. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores 鈥�. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader 鈥�. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska

Music by Mark Stevens and Chris Larner

Producer: Peter Kavanagh

Made for 大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.

30 minutes

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