Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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| 01 | The people from NICE | 20250209 | 
We're not in Narnia anymore. It's the late 1940s and an exhausted Britain is trying to recover from the war. The establishment of NICE (National Institute for Coordinated Experiments) seems to offer a positive future. There are confident predictions of a cure for cancer and new treatments for antisocial behaviour that will made prisons redundant. A tech revolution is blooming without restraint and NICE are secretly experimenting with the creation of trans-human beings of superior intellect. C S Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.
Jane (Anneika Rose) is tormented by terrible nightmares about a severed head that talks. She tries to talk to her husband Mark (Joel MacCormack) about it, but he's preoccupied with his work as a new college fellow at the University. And when his Mark's college sell Bragdon Wood to NICE, he's surprised to find himself offered a job at the organisation. There's an old myth that Merlin is buried under Bragdon Wood. Could that be why NICE is so keen to own it?
CAST
Jane ..... Anneika Rose
Dramatised by Melissa Murray
Production co-ordinators: Lindsay Rees and Eleri Sydney McAuliffe
A BBC Audio Wales production
Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. Jane is tormented by awful nightmares but husband Mark is distracted by an exciting job offer. Lewis's modern fairy tale for grown-ups warns of a world where technocrats are kings.
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| 02 | The return of Merlin | 20250216 |
We're not in Narnia anymore. It's the late 1940s and an exhausted Britain is trying to recover from the war. The establishment of NICE (National Institute for Coordinated Experiments) seems to offer a positive future. There are confident predictions of a cure for cancer and new treatments for antisocial behaviour that will made prisons redundant. A tech revolution is blooming without restraint and NICE are secretly experimenting with the creation of trans-human beings of superior intellect. C S Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.
Jane (Anneika Rose) is tormented by terrible nightmares about a severed head that talks. She tries to talk to her husband Mark (Joel MacCormack) about it, but he's preoccupied with his work as a new college fellow at the University. And when his Mark's college sell Bragdon Wood to NICE, he's surprised to find himself offered a job at the organisation. There's an old myth that Merlin is buried under Bragdon Wood. Could that be why NICE is so keen to own it?
CAST
Jane ..... Anneika Rose
Dramatised by Melissa Murray
Production co-ordinators: Lindsay Rees and Eleri Sydney McAuliffe
A BBC Audio Wales production
Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. Tech organisation NICE are taking over. Mark has been arrested for the murder of Hengist. But Jane's visions summon a power that may save him.
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