Journey into Space
According to the Operation Luna liner notes, this serial drama program was the last BBC
radio broadcast to outdraw the television audience on the same night. The first of the
three original series (“Journey to the Moon”) centered on a crew of four, rocketing
to the moon in 1965. The first time travel occurs in the 11th episode where they find
themselves displaced on Earth by thousands of years. Eventually, they return to their own
time.
Almost all of the recordings of that first series were destroyed, but most were
rerecorded for a rerun series (renamed “Operation Luna”). Those rerecordings are
available on CD along with the non-time-travel second series (“The Red Planet”) and
third series (“The World in Peril”).
And during that period, time for me went backwards. I returned to my childhood.