Old fanzine buying again...

[parrot_knight]

I've had a few rounds on eBay recently, and while was unwilling to pay over the odds for an issue of DWFC Mag from 1973, with the first review of The Three Doctors, I did pick up a couple of issues of In Vision. This caught my eye from issue 50, covering Warriors' Gate"[Steve/Stephen Gallagher's] first commission was a six-part science-fiction

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[malaheed]

AN ALTERNATIVE TO SUICIDE 1979 90m
Science fiction. Set in the future; the crews of interstellar ships are little more than super-efficient automatons who have been programmed from birth for their life away from Earth. One of them breaks his conditioning and finds the truth about his existence. Superior sf play. With Michael Jayston, Catherine Kessler, Paul Maxwell, Brian Haynes, John Bull, Michael Drew, Adrian Egan, Murray Cash, Carole Boyd, Margaret Robertson, Peter Marinker, Nigel Lambert, Danny Schiller, Roger Hammond, Patrick Barr, Graham Faulkner, Henry Knowles. Directed by Martin Jenkins.

It's listed as broadcast in 1979 on BBC radio

[wellinghall]

Where did you get that from?

[malaheed]

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/sgall.html

http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/alternative_to_suicide__an.html

http://www.stephengallagher.com/novelisations.htm

[wellinghall]

Ta

[parrot_knight]

I thought this might be the case - while the 'factual' section of the magazine thinks that the play wasn't broadcast, the author of one of the critical articles later on remembers listening to it!