- DURATION 60 mins
Event Description
12th April marks the anniversary of the first manned space flight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, just over a decade after the first monkey was sent into space in 1949. This talk will look at how the idea of space travel fed into popular culture in the 50s and early 60s, through comic strips such as Dan Dare Pilot of the Future and Rick Random Space Detective, the BBC pioneering radio drama series Journey into Space, which was the last radio drama to outstrip television in terms of its audience, and, the early Gerry Anderson puppet marionation TV shows Fireball XL5 and its rival Space Patrol. Not forgetting Doctor Who and Lost in Space.
- Duration: 60 mins
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (no replay available)
Meet the Host, David Turnbull
David Turnbull is an accredited guide with the Lambeth Tour Guides’ Association. His guided walks ‘Lambeth Fantastical’ explore popular culture of the 20th Century in film, television, literature and pop music and their links to South London. Supplementing these walks is a monthly Lambeth Fantastical blog. He is the author of HUSks, a near future dystopian novella and One Hundred Predictions, a collection of fantasy and sci-fi flash fiction, and the Dragon Breath Chronicles, a steampunk adventure.
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