#radio scripts

[friend-through-teenage-nights]

One of the highlights of the book of the original radio scripts of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

[wilwheaton]

Script for the 1947 production of Red Wind.

Script for the 1947 production of The Red Wind, which can be heard here:

https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles/Philip_Marlowe_48-09-26_001_Red_Wind.mp3

It holds up, and is a nice way to spend 29 minutes.

[captawesomesauce]

Fit the Eleventh

LINTILLA: Come, you can help us. We've a lot of digging to do and the automatic drill's broken down.

ARTHUR: I don't think you can dig your way off a planet can you?

LINTILLA: No. I said, we're archaeologists.

ARTHUR: Ah. You don't look as if you're in good condition for digging with your arm in a sling. Is it broken?

LINTILLA: Oh no, it's just a pseudo-fracture.

ARTHUR: A . . . ?

LINTILLA: Pseudo-fracture. It's artificially induced. All the pain swelling and immobility of a fracture without the inconvenience of the fracture itself.

ARTHUR: Er, is that good?

LINTILLA: Good?

ARTHUR: Er, yes, particularly?

LINTILLA: Well you wouldn't want me to have a broken arm would you?

ARTHUR: Well no, of course not, I mean I hardly know you.

LINTILLA: Right, but the effect is useful.

ARTHUR: Is it?

LINTILLA: Yes. Of course it is. Crisis psychology. The benefits of working under extreme pressure. Nothing more useless than a bored archaeologist. Come on, this tunnel leads to the work face. See this device?

ARTHUR: Looks like a watch.

LINTILLA: It's a crisis inducer. Set it to mark nine, and . . .

F/X LITTLE ALARM BELLS START UP

Hurry! They're after us!

ARTHUR: Who?

LINTILLA: No one! Come on! Through the tunnel, they're coming!

ARTHUR: But . . .

LINTILLA: They're coming.

ARTHUR: Well, if you say so.

F/X THEY BOTH SCRAMBLE INTO THE TUNNEL, WITH MUCH

ROCKY SCRABBLING GRUNTING AND PANTING