Eight gripping BBC Radio dramas from acclaimed writer and director Simon Bovey

Cold Blood
This chilling serial follows a group of scientists conducting research in Antarctica. Once the most pristine environment in the world, this icy wilderness has become gold rush country. Biotechnology companies have raced to unravel the secrets of life in a cold climate, drawn by the lure of lightning in a bottle. Now someone’s captured it – and a killer is on the loose…
Broadcast in five episodes: Freezerville, Cold Cold Heart, The Changing Man, Sanctuary No More and The Antarctican.

The Voice of God
Investigating a series of mysterious Australian earthquakes, seismologist Sam Rideout and her outback guide, Joshua, make a sinister discovery when they track the tremors to their epicentre inside an old British nuclear test site. Joshua is Aboriginal, and Maralinga is a sacred place to his people. But it also happens to be a top-secret facility, researching a sonic super-weapon that could lead to global catastrophe…
Broadcast in five episodes: Fields of Thunder, Silent Roar, Dreamtime Is Over, Blowback and Can You Hear This.

Slipstream
It’s 1945, and the Allies are on course to win the war. But then an unidentified Nazi aircraft appears: silver, disc-shaped and capable of astonishing speed. When it shoots down 150 RAF bombers, Major Barton and his British Commando unit are sent on a dangerous mission to investigate…
Broadcast in five episodes: Into the Wolf’s Lair, The Eagle’s Nest, The Tomorrow World, This Island Earth and Fight for the Future.

Hive Mind
A dystopian eco-drama set in a world where honeybees are officially extinct. Their role now falls to an army of seasonal migrant workers, hired by farmers like Sam Clark to pollinate crops by hand. It’s a costly, labour-intensive process, so when a new technological solution is developed in the form of tiny artificial ‘bees’, Sam jumps at the chance to try it. But the arrival of the Honeybots proves anything but ideal…

The Iceman
London 1860. When three women are found murdered the only clue DI Burdett has is a trace of ice found in the victims’ throats – a clue that leads him into very deep water indeed.

Sargasso
Elver season on the river Severn – a time of mystery and danger. The wrong time and place for a young man to be searching for his place in the world.

Mountain of Light
London, 1851. The world’s largest diamond is on show at the Great Exhibition. And John Rayverne must find a way to steal it to save the people he loves.

Franklin
In 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Harriet Glickman, a high school teacher in California, writes to Charles M Schulz, creator of the USA’s most widely published comic strip ‘Peanuts’, about the possible inclusion of a ‘black character’ in the strip. Although what she suggests appeals to Schultz, he also finds it morally troubling. Based on a true story.