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**** This programme was suggested by Colin Ball and Steven Croote as part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****

Researchers develop a system than can detect sentient life. But some unknown force has other ideas.

'Just think what you have here. Biodar - the first radar in the world, so far as we know. that can pick up sentient life and locate it exactly ...'

Working on Biodar, Peter Brent and Margaret Govan are puzzled because Maiden Tor, a nearby hilltop crowned with a circle of stones - The Twelve Maidens – comes across as a complete blank on their screens.

Starring Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore.

A sci-fi serial for radio in six parts by Stewart Farrar.

Peter Brent .... Martin Jarvis
Margaret Govan .... Patricia Gallimore
Sgt George Blake .... Sean Arnold
Dr Carl Ewing .... Haydn Jones
Joe Gurney .... Douglas Blackwell
Reuben Fairfax, the Coven Leader .... Patrick Tull
Bridget Williams .... Eva Stuart
Donald Williams .... Fraser Kerr
Rex Andrews .... Antony Higginson
Susan Platt .... Margaret Robertson
Professor Philip Jessup .... Lewis Stringer
Bill …. Alan Reid

Producer: David H Godfrey

First broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 in July 1971.

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