Birth by Robert J. Sawyer and Michael Lennick


(4 stars; 3 reviews)

Birth premiered, Friday, July 8, 2005, at 10:00 p.m. across Canada on CBC Radio One as a part of a limited anthology series called Deep Night, executive produced by Gregory J. Sinclair. Birth explored the accidental emergence of sentience among robots on Mars. DEEP NIGHT: Prepare to be unnerved tonight, as Deep Night presents "Birth". Award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer and filmmaker Michael Lennick teamed up to tell an extraordinary tale of two births: one the first human on Mars, the other a collection of tiny robots that achieve consciousness, with life-threatening consequences. That's Deep Night, right after the ten p.m. news. (10:00 ET - 10:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. FRIDAY JULY 8, 2005 Story Editor: Craig Nelson Produced and Directed by Joe Mahoney Recording Engineer: Wayne Richards Casting Director: Linda Grearson  The Cast:  Phil Akin as Captain Juan Gomez Joel Ziegler as Martin Asquith Jean Yoon as Hannah Andrew Gillies as the Professor  Brenda Robins as the Computer Jani Lauzon as Mission Control DEEP NIGHT was a horror anthology produced by the CBC in the summer of 2005. It was part of their Monday Playbill series which ran on Friday Nights.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

Birth 28:13