I can resist posting this. Its on a new and apparently extremely successful BBC Radio7 Sci-Fi series called Planet B.

Part of BBC Radio's science fiction season between February and March 2009. Planet B follows the journey of John Armstrong (played by Gunnar Cauthery) through the virtual world of a futuristic game. In an effort to find his girlfriend Lioba Fielding (Donnla Hughes) he becomes entangled in an array of strange scenarios, teleporting from each adventure to the next with his companion Medley (Lizzy Watts) while being watched by an antivirus programme called Cerberus (Chris Pavlo).

The series was created by Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole and Matthew Broughton with James Robinson and ran for ten episodes. It was BBC Radio 7's biggest ever commission for an original drama series.
A second series is currently in production.

The first series being ten episodes long. It was broadcast as part of a science fiction season on BBC Radio. Broughton acts as the head writer for the show. Dromgoole, the series producer, describes the character of John as being, "a real character trapped in a sci-fi. So in a sense, he is our guide into it. He's very skeptical about it and he's innocent about everything he encounters there.

James Robinson, the script editor for Planet B said that one of the main advantages of a series such as this is that it can be set anywhere saying, "One week it's westerns, one week it's full-on sci-fi space operas, and that's one of the nice things about the best sci-fi concepts. I think, you know, the Doctor Who's and the Quantum Leap's, you kind of get a different show each week.


Critical Reviews
The series received mostly positive reviews. Phil Daoust from The Guardian selected Planet B as his pick of the day when the show was first broadcast. He wrote that it, "is likely to be one of those love-it-or-hate-it experiences."On March 6, 2009, Scott Matthewman from The Stage wrote: "I am shame-faced, in that I missed this intense drama serial off last week’s preview. Matthew Broughton's tale of a malfunctioning virtual world is engrossing."

Ian Dunn from One Giant Leap also wrote positively: "The series has been amazingly gripping. The situation of the show allows it to be set just about anywhere, much like Doctor Who. The plot is enticing and you really care about the characters." He also commented: "One intriguing thing about the series so far is that some of the scenarios have been rather adult for a show broadcast at 6pm. One episode, set in a Roman world featured a scene in a sex dungeon. Another featured Cerberus doing what all dogs do (no matter how many heads they have) and urinate on a motorbike – well, half man-half motorbike." (WikiPedia)



Listen to behind the scenes series of Planet B.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/seasons/science_fiction.shtml