Your introduction to Fantasy/Scifi

What about Charles Chilton's Journey into Space series on BBC Light Programme in the early 1950s? It certainly hooked me. And I think I still remember some of the music, but forget the name. He also was a wonderful 'cliff-hanger' specialist.
 
My experience was pretty classical at first--started with abridged fairy-tales (Illustrated Classics series) when I was four to five-ish. 'The Little Mermaid' non-Disney story disturbed me at the time, even in the children's retelling. Still does, actually. But I distinctly remember receiving The Hobbit for Christmas when I was five, though I didn't actually read all the way through it for another year or two. Read through all three books of The Lord of the Rings when I was eight, then The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Flew through the rest of the Narnia books after that.

Let's see--I read lots of Enid Blyton (lashings of it, as she'd probably say), some Edith Nesbitt, George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie--I'm only mentioning the most influential books for me here. Then I decided I knew enough to write my own fantasy novel.

Didn't really get into sci-fi until I read Orson Scott Card's Ender series several years later (wasn't too keen on H.G. Wells as a youngster,, though I did like Jules Verne). That and some of Andre Norton's works. Oh, and Star Wars and the original Doctor Who, of course.

Anyway, those are my fantasy/science fiction roots. I might have left out one or two other major ones--if I remember, maybe I'll quote my own post later and add a postscript. (Pun totally intended.)
 
REF: Ambrose.
Journey Into Space has been lately on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
They very long and surprisingly detailed storys, sound effects are fantastic, all around very good hard Science Fiction, not sure how many series there were, they explored the Moon and Mars (foiling a plan to invade Earth, nearly all the Martians were kidnapped Earthmen), traveled back in time to ancient Earth and went as far out as Saturn!
 
REF: Ambrose.
Journey Into Space has been lately on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
They very long and surprisingly detailed storys, sound effects are fantastic, all around very good hard Science Fiction, not sure how many series there were, they explored the Moon and Mars (foiling a plan to invade Earth, nearly all the Martians were kidnapped Earthmen), traveled back in time to ancient Earth and went as far out as Saturn!
Ah. Thanks for that data. I see there's a big entry for the series on Wikipedia, including a section on sound effects!.
 

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