Life of Penguins by Katie Hims | BBC-Style Sci-Fi Drama at London Zoo

Life of Penguins by Katie Hims is a quietly unsettling BBC-style drama where the ordinary brushes up against the extraordinary.

Merle is a penguin keeper at London Zoo — a job of routines, responsibility, and keeping things in order. But when her sister Beth fails to turn up for a simple cinema date, Merle goes looking… and stumbles into something far stranger than she could ever have imagined.

Beth hasn’t just gone missing. She’s been taken.
By aliens.
And it turns out this isn’t the first time.

Set against the familiar surroundings of London Zoo, Life of Penguins blends everyday realism with eerie science-fiction, building a story that’s tense, emotional, and deeply human. This is not sci-fi with ray guns and laughs — it’s about absence, belief, and what happens when the unbelievable refuses to stay hidden.

Moody, thoughtful, and darkly compelling, this is a drama that lingers long after the final word.

🎧 A classic BBC-style radio play
🛸 Subtle science-fiction mystery
🐧 London Zoo setting with an unsettling twist

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Merle ...... Abigail Davies
Linus ...... Matthew Wilson
Gina ...... Serena Bobowski
Frank ...... Dominic Hawksley
Beth ...... Madeleine Bowyer
Ania ...... Ania Tomaszewska
Chris ...... Chris Nelson
Written by Katie Hims
Directed by Boz Temple-Morris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008

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