Pod To Pluto

Space. The final job before I quit. These are the voyages of ‘UK Space Agency Engineering Pod Number 46’. My five-year mission: to explore the ten square metres I’m trapped inside, seek out Pluto and boldly go switch off a lightbulb. If it’s still on...

Welcome to our completed 22 part scifi audiofiction sitcom series ‘Pod To Pluto’ and say hello to ‘Jemima Belafonte’ and her ‘Pod’ computer. As they both try and keep each other company during a very long 4.6 billion mile trip to Pluto!

Written By: Peter Richard Adams
Starring: Laura England as Jemima and Wayne Russell as Pod
LANGUAGE UPDATE: You can now Listen/View ‘Pod To Pluto’ in French and Japanese

In the very final episode of our story and with the entire population of the ‘United Kingdom of Pluto’ rioting on the streets; Jemima and Pod fly out to an old abandoned research station. A place where a previous engineer once left a lightbulb on five years ago. It is there that we will discover who is behind everything and manipulating this whole story. Because this is the moment that Jemima’s whole life has been building up to!

Surely her actions won’t doom everybody? Will they?

Please Note: This episode was written, recorded and released before the sad death of Queen Elizabeth II.

You can listen to the full original version of ‘Let’s Fly To Pluto’ on Apple and Spotify

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as John | Beccy Stirrup as Janet
Ben Warren as Pete Thomas | Letty Butler as The BBC Reporter
Mills Ross as PC Juliet Dickson | Melanie Crawley as Hairy Jenny
Karin Heimdahl as The Spacebook Wiki Jeeves
Simon McDonald as The Ministerial Adviser | Dean T. Moody as The President
Roanna Cruz as The Presidential Advisor
Peter Richard Adams as ‘Essex the Cat’ | Pip Mason as The Queen
It Also Featured The Voices Of:
Baz Francis, Kathleen Li, Gabriel Mesa, Adam Robinson, Rae Cameron,
David John-Bores, Andrew Biss, Francine Farley, Jenna Evans, & Gareth Brownbil.
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Additional material by E.O. Higgins
Script Editing By Rob Smyth
Directed, Produced, Script Supervised & Edited by Peter Beeston
Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Episode Artwork By Brandon Palas
The song “Let’s Fly To Pluto” and was written by Peter Richard Adams and recorded by Adam Daffurn
Other Music: “Clash_Of_Heroes”, “Chase Scene Music”, “Behind You”
& “Beyond The Stars” By Fesliyan Studios
Released on 31/08/22 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Having crashed upon the surface of Pluto, Jemima and Pod are shocked to discover that nothing happening on the planet is what they were expecting. Soon Jemima finds herself battling sudden fame, political upheaval and an entire country brainwashed by Saranex five. Pod meanwhile, is about to discover what happens when you are surplus to requirements

…and then a mysterious character from Jemima’s past reappears. With pastry!

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as John | Beccy Stirrup as Janet
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Alice Belafonte | Bronte King as Harriet Belafonte
Nic Bowden as Graham | Ben Warren as Pete Thomas
Richard Ashwell as The Grand Mutt | Letty Butler as Linda Lovelace
Dave Baird as the Highway Advert | Stu Newnham as Pod 54
Jade Knox as Pod 12 | Scott Hill as Pod 1 & The King Of France
The Pluto Surface Singers Were:
Peter Richard Adams, Kathleen Li, Lec Zorn,
Owen Curtiss, Philip Walchester, Deborah Stencel
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editing By Rob Smyth
Directed, Produced, Script Supervised & Edited by Peter Beeston
Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Other Music: Trouble Is Brewing By Fesliyan Studios
Shadow by Philip Logan | Tiana By Ben Hayden
Released on 26/02/22 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Jemima is now floating helplessly and untethered in deep space after Pod-Zero (who had gone mad chasing her for so long) tried to kill our heroic UK space engineer. Pod is trying to rescue her by liaising with everybody at UKSA, but they seem to be at some big nationwide celebration and are all horribly drunk. So it now looks like their only chance of surviving this grave situation is by venturing into the smashed dark remains of Pod-Zero

…and then trying to quickly land or crash upon on the surface of Pluto?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Ian J France as Pod Zero | David Taylor as John
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Alice Belafonte | Beccy Stirrup as Janet
Richard Ashwell as The Trailer Voice | Letty Butler as Queen Elizabeth II
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Other Music: Radiance & Boss Time by Fesliyan Studios
Centaur by Mike Eastwood & Wendelay by Lucy Amberon
Released on 30/10/21 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Join Jemima & Pod as they spend a long day waiting for ‘Pod Zero’ to arrive, in a production clearly not ghost-written by Samuel Beckett. So can our existential search for meaning in this world be summed up by a five billion mile journey to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb? Or is this just another case of us all ‘passing the time’ together? Whatever happens, one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Pod Zero to come

Also… it better not kill us horribly when it arrives

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
and Ian J France as Pod Zero
Written by Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Other Music: Tears Won’t Stop, On Fire, Fight Dance by David Fesliyan
Released on 26/11/20 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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In the far future, #SocialMedia eventually became illegal once it was discovered that the constant stream of useless trivia literally scrambled your head! With studies showing that your brain after one month on #SocialMedia became more damaged than a bare foot on 3am Lego. But who is really going to stop our brave UK space engineer, Jemmima Belafonte from occasionally logging into her SpaceBook™ account this far out in deep space?

Even if she still has to deal with the occasional internet troll; what could the harm be?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as John | Dean Sills as HeadEd43
Ben Warren as Pete Thomas | Kirsty Woolven as SpaceBook™
Gail Ferrin as GlueGirl103 | Dustin Frederick as Hungry FisherMan12
Mills Ross as PC Juliet Dickson | Ian J France as Pod Zero
Gareth Brownbill as Sneaky Wobbler Thumbs Up Smiley Face
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Other Music: Sneaky Rascal by David Fesliyan & Requiem For A Love by Alban Lepsy
Released on 22/10/20 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Somehow it’s the first day of spring in deep space and Pod is full of joy! Jemima however isn’t feeling the happiness and once she discovers the true reality of her engineering qualifications and the threat of a fresh cake from Janet appearing in the supply relay; she feels even worse. However she won’t have to worry about any of that soon, as she is about to face forcible eviction from the Pod!

Along with her cardboard toolkit…

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Beccy Stirrup as Janet | David Taylor as John
Ben Warren as Pete Thomas | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 24/09/20 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Beccy Stirrup also has her own #SciFi #AudioDrama ‘Diary Of A Space Archivist’ which you can subscribe to here

In the darkest depths of deep space (just past Uranus) Jemima and Pod find themselves coming across an ad-field. Which it turns out is a bit similar to a minefield, but where as a minefield simply wants to kill you, an ad-field wants to instead beam adverts directly into your brain-hole to blow you away with irresistible bargains! It seems this strange occurrence is somehow linked to the gigantic ‘star cruiser’ which they’ve also discovered and is now broadcasting a distress signal from someone calling themselves ‘Captain Harriet Belafonte’??

Families! For people who fail at choosing friends!

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Bronte King as Harriet Belafonte | Stephen Mawson as Number One
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Alice Belafonte | Ian J France as Pod Zero
The announcer was Pip Mason
The ‘Advert Voices’ Performed By: Dean T Moody,Scott Hill, Hannah Lloyd
Thomas Cove, Ryan Oades, Dean Sills and Dave Baird
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 27/08/20 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Bronte King also has her own YouTube channel which you can subscribe to here

Welcome back to ‘Pod To Pluto’ our comedy scifi audiodrama about a lonely space engineer on her way to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb. In the first episode of this new series, we find Jemima lazily dreaming of saving the entire galaxy from the evil Lightbulbians. Meanwhile, Pod has come up with a number of interesting ways to celebrate their third glorious year travelling across the solar system together. So they’ve decided to reboot things a little. Starting by redesigning the Pod, buying a little cute nanobot and in five seconds they’re going to install a new DLC voice pack!

This isn’t going to end well, is it?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Hannah Lloyd as Pods Other Voice | Dean T Moody as the Nanobot
Jade Knox as P.O.D | Rufus Perry as Toy Commercial Kid
Ian J France as Pod Zero | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Additional music tracks by Andrey Sitkov
Released on 30/07/20 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Out in deep space on Christmas Eve; devious moon gangsters have seized control of the engineering vessel and taken Jemima hostage! All they want to do is drink a glass of festive Glühwein; steal back an object taken from the garbage belt and then blow-up the ship into a million pieces! But Pod has managed to escape detection and slipped away. Armed only with his Christmas-chicken and mastery of a game called ‘Donkey Balls’, Pod launches his own one-computer war against the moon gangsters to save the day!

So join us for this Audiodrama, Audiofiction, Comedy Podcast, Christmas Special, in which any similarity to the classic yuletide tale of ‘The Die Hard’ is purely intentional!

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Mills Ross as PC Juliet Dickson | Thomas Cove as Handsome Booger
David Taylor as John | Sarah Golding as The 999 Operator
The announcer is Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Additional material by Anthony Rooney
Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams | Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston
Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Featuring an extract of the 9th Symphony by Beethoven via Music for Content Creators
Released on 13/12/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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In deep space, it’s cold, empty and vast. Which means you’re also very unlikely to find any other spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system. After all, nobody ever travels this far out from Earth unless they’ve been forced to because of some unfortunate employment offer which they now regret. So the chances of finding another identical space-pod, this far in deep space and then being attacked by it? Well, they’re astronomical!

I guess Jemima and Pod should feel lucky then.

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Ben Warren as Pete Thomas | Jade Knox as P.O.D
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 04/07/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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When you’re stuck in your office 24 hours a day for the next five years like space engineer Jemima Belafonte is. You at least know that no matter how dull the days might be, you’ll be earning a sizeable overtime wage. That is, unless you happen to be ‘ring fenced’ in a “challenging but exciting because change is nothing to fear” employment restructure.

But what are the chances of that happening?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as John | Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 06/06/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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The story we’re about to tell, is set in the near future and is all about an intrepid, young, handsome, and heroic ‘class 9’ service Pod on a dangerous mission to the outer regions of the known galaxy and the only person with him, is a dumb human called Jemma.

Well, at least that’s how the story develops in the new award-winning novel that Pod has written (which may or may not be based on real life events) So if Pod is now keeping busy via his own literary pursuits, maybe Jemima can find a hobby all of her own?

Knitting? Cooking? Boredom? These are all options…

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Lindz Steindler as Kate | Scott Hill as Welsh Gary & The King of France
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 09/05/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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It’s one of the seven wonders of the galaxy! One of the true great sights! A view that has been known to cause strong men, men who have spent their entire life dedicated to the cause of atheism, to fall to their knees and thank God for having been allowed life!

So, is this a description of the majesty of Saturn’s rings, or just the glory of a KFC family bucket meal? Pod is getting so glitch these days, it’s hard to tell. Maybe some workplace training will help?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as DeathPod
David Taylor as John | Peter Richard Adams as Deliveroo-Intergalactoo
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 11/04/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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A birthday comes but once a deep space solar cycle for Pod, who was born 23 years ago today! Pod still thinks it looks just as glistening and new as that moment when the Astro Dock Mid-Wifery team handed it to his mummy, who flicked it’s engage button while his father cut the umbilical matrix (it really was horrible what happened to his father). However, Jemima thinks Pod can’t celebrate a birthday, given that it’s nothing but a hulking, almost decrepit mass of pig iron with no soul and no appreciation of the human condition.

But if that was the case, why is everyone so keen to congratulate Pod today?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | David Taylor as John
Nic Bowden as Graham | Chris Bellamy as Andy
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 21/03/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Life continues under the blanket of boredom for Jemima, as she endures her long dull journey through deep space on her way to Pluto to go turn off a lightbulb. Yet strangely, she currently seems to be feeling even more exhausted than normal. Could it be that a diet of processed spam, tinned wine and full fat cheese has started to make her feel unwell? Or perhaps her constant shortness of breath might have something more to do with all the oxygen around her having a rather strange blue tint.

Air shouldn’t look blue; should it?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 28/02/19 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Things get pretty lonely when you’re two hundred thousand miles from home. Especially when you’re spending the first of half a decade’s worth of ‘Christmas Eves’ alone with just your sarcastic shipboard AI for company (and far too much desiccated coconut) So Jemima thinks that maybe explaining the Nativity to ‘Pod’ will help it understand the holiday a little bit better.

She was wrong…

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 30/11/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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It’s somehow always night-time in deep space, which means there is an awful lot of spare time for Jemima to think about odd random ‘stuff’ whilst trapped alone in the dark empty void. Especially her ‘very long’ distance relationship with her boyfriend Graham. So in this emotional season finale of ‘Pod To Pluto’, she tries to contact him and get things nicely sorted out once and for all…

Who knows, he might even pop the big question to her!

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Nic Bowden as Graham | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
End Music: ‘Obertura’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 24/05/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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In deep space; every day feels like a Tuesday for Jemima. That’s because Tuesdays; in all their wretched banal glory, always feel like the most awful of days. So perhaps Jemima should just lie back and talk to somebody about these deep-seated feelings? Would that help? Maybe the lights can be dimmed and some relaxing soft music played? She starts to relax and breathe deeply. Yes, this is much better; she’s starting to enjoy this now…

And that’s when Pod starts talking about sex with her mother…

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 03/05/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Jemima thinks that Mars is just a barren, dull, lifeless hole. With the only people living there being lonely singing space miners. She says it’s just like an historical Welsh theme park; but with love spoons instead of rollercoasters. Pod is still going to dig a little deeper though, as he loves folk traditions and really wants to hear those funny little miners singing their songs!

Yet, she can’t shake the feeling that she’ll end up eating cheese on toast with a stick of leek in her hair… or worse!

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as The Space Miner | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 12/04/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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It’s time for Jemima to exercise her democratic franchise! However like most elections it’s a two horse race and neither are very tempting. Yet there is one policy that’s rather appealing to her. Johnny December is playing a very home front campaign. Unlike his opponent Hairy Jenny; he’s standing on a ticket of cutting spending by curbing unnecessary space exploration. Jemima feels like she could get behind that (considering she’s currently involved in some unnecessary space exploration)

Her shipboard computer ‘Pod’ however; has other ideas…

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 22/03/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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So, what do you do to pass the time when you’re spending the next five years stuck in a tiny engineering pod? You can only play “Screamy-Screamy-Guessy-Guess” for so long. After all, it won’t take long before you can’t distinguish a scream of simple competition; compared to a scream of crushing frustration. So how about a trip to the garbage-belt then? After all, there’s loads of sweet stuff up there. Some people even say it’s the treasure trove of the entire universe!

As long as you really like human skulls that is…

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
David Taylor as John | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 1/03/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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Today is going to be the last day for Jemima working as a UK space engineer. Once she’s finished this last job on adult satellite hugemongouswowwows.com, she’s taking the engineering-pod back to ‘Command & Control’ for her leaving party. It’s going to be glorious. She’s going to make a funny yet poignant speech. People will cry and tell her that they’ll miss her. She’ll be showered with gifts and then she’s going to Exeter with her boyfriend to start a new life!

She’s forgotten to put any of this in her protocol diary, but that won’t matter; will it?

 

 

Laura England as Jemima Belafonte | Wayne Russell as Pod
Stephanie Lee as Mrs Belafonte | David Taylor as John
Nic Bowden as Graham | The announcer was Pip Mason
Written by Peter Richard Adams | Script Editor – Mark Charles Adams
Directed & Edited by Peter Beeston | Sound Effects via: www.freesound.org
Theme Music: ‘Aparente Ingravidez’ by Martin Benitez
Released on 8/02/18 under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License
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