Narrator: In 1951 John Wyndham wrote the classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel ‘The Day of the Triffids.’
GRAMS: Mysterious Chord
Narr: In 2001 Simon Clark published a sequel ‘The Night of the Triffids’ which carried on the story some thirty years after the first book had ended.
GRAMS: Mysterious music.
Narr: Now, at no additional expense, we bring you the story from the intervening years ‘The Tea-Time of the Triffids’
GRAMS: Mysterious musical chord.
SFX: sounds of a tea-time scenario
Triffid 1: Clack! Clackclack! Clack!
Triffid 2: Clackclack! Clack! Clackclack!
Triffid 1: Clack! Clickclack!
Triffid 2: Clacketyclick!!
Triffid 1: Clack!
GRAMS: Mysterious Chord
Narr: Obviously this ‘Triffid Language’ is not readily understood by humans. And so, we shall start once again with subtitles and an almost simultaneous translation.
Narr: We bring you ‘The Tea-Time of the Triffids’
GRAMS: Mysterious musical chord (as before)
SFX: Sounds of a tea-time scenario
Triffid 1: Clack! Clackclack! Clack?
Male Actor: Triffid Friend, what is your question?
Triffid 2: Clackclack! Clack! Clackclack!
Female Actor: I wish to know what these are?
Triffid 1: Clack! Clickclack!
Male Actor: Cucumber Sandwiches!
Triffid 2: Clackettyclick!!
Female Actor: Oh! Are we related to them?
Triffid 1: Clack!
Male Actor (sadly): Yes.
GRAMS: Mysterious Chord
Narr: That was the first part of ‘Tea-Time of the Triffids’ a seventeen part adaptation of the book written by Wind Johnyam.
Next week we shall return with Part Two, which is entitled: ‘The Triffids Try Karaoke.’
Graeme Sandford 