Support Sophie Aldred’s New Project, Strangeness in Space

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Lift-off is imminent for a new online audio comedy which brings together one of the Doctor’s most popular companions with a legendary comedy duo. Strangeness in Space is the title of the new project starring Sophie Aldred, Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson which promises to be “a sci-fi comedy podcast series for kids aged 8 to 80, and beyond…”

Neal and Hickson will forever be better known as Trevor and Simon, who brightened up Saturday mornings no end back in the 1980s and 1990s swinging their pants and exploring their ‘world of the strange’ on BBC1 in Going Live and its successor Live and Kicking. The boys promise more of their distinctive brand of humour from this new production:

“We loved that parents seemed to enjoy our humour as much as their kids on Saturday morning telly and we intend to bring the same sense of family fun to this.”

Here’s what it’s all about:

What would happen if Sophie, the manager of a NASA Space Centre gift shop, and Trev and Simon, two idiots claiming to be a 1980s styled synth pop duo called Pink Custard, were thrown together with a stressy computer robot called LEMON on board a damaged space craft, lost in a distant universe, orbiting Planet Mirth?

Strangeness would happen, that’s what!

Trev, Simon and Sophie are unwittingly rocketed into the extraordinary, surreal world of space! They’re racing into the future with a foot in the past (the nostalgic 1980’s to be precise). Along the way, fuelled by a diet of indigestible powdered space food, they will encounter a whole host of unusual space dwellers and aliens, all played by an exciting parade of cult actors and celebrities, in as many episodes as we can fund through this campaign with your help!

They’ll bump into the flocking Featherheads, or encounter the hairy scary Rhinocerbikers, or shake hands with the sinister Dr Scarifium! or be shook up by a Space Ghost!

The audio series is produced by Clare Eden who was one of the brains behind the Doctor Who spin-off drama The Minister of Chance. The series will be free to listen to but like the earlier series will make use of a crowdfunding campaign, which launches on Tuesday 24th March 2015, to help with production costs. Those making pledges will be able to own artwork, scripts and T-shirts, and even get to meet the cast.

The foursome are old friends having met whilst studying drama at University in Manchester. “50 years ago in March Alexei Leonov took the first ever walk in Space,” said Sophie. “I find it hilarious that I am now heading off to Space for adventures with Trev and Simon!”

For full details on Strangeness in Space and its Kickstarter campaign head over to www.strangenessinspace.com

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