Nigel Collins

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Audio

Jeffrey visits the Peace Park in Nagasaki and offers an ema prayer board and sakura petals to the six dead kamikaze. Audio

Jeffrey goes to the kamikaze museum where he comes face-to-face with the image of 19-year-old Chiharu Nagata. One of the six kamikaze who died attacking HMS Illustrious. Audio

Jeffrey plans his trip with the help of Dr. Kota Hattori then begins the first leg staying with Ken Westmoreland. Audio

Delving into the history of kamikaze, Jeffrey learns more about the internal workings of these young men including diary entries and letters home. Audio

Hector C. Bywater, a great-uncle of Jeffrey's and a naval commentator, writes of Japan's naval history and predicts the attack on Pearl Harbour. Audio

In Taihape they throw gumboots. In Scotland, it's cabers, and a small town in Dorset has just celebrated its annual knob throwing contest. Audio

As The Nightingale finally lifts off from the distant planet, Wilberfoss is forced to make his own fatal decision. But it is the motivation for the action he takes that eventually leads to his own… Audio

Wilberfoss meets the gigantic alien creature, discovers it is highly intelligent and begins to communicate with it in rudimentary sign language. Audio

The truth begins to emerge about the dreadful consequences of The Nightingale's attempt to cope with the storm. Audio

The Nightingale makes a fatal mistake as it tries to cope with a huge storm that sweeps across the surface of the planet where it has crash landed. Audio

Before recounting the actual crash, Wulf the autoscribe, takes us forward to the eventual recovery of The Nightingale and the rescue of its only survivor, Wilberfoss. Audio

The strange alien,the Quelle, causes real problems aboard The Nightingale and contributes to the disastrous crash of the starship on a remote planet. Audio

The Nightingale begins its maiden voyage. The shepherd boy, Sandy, comes aboard and is taken over by the strange alien entity, the Quelle. Audio

Wulf gives an account of his own evolution. We board The Nightingale for the first time as Wilberfoss connects with the ship's biocrystalline brain. Audio

Wulf replays Wilberfoss' own account of his early life and adolescence and his journey towards accepting the captaincy of The Nightingale. Audio

Wulf, the ancient robotic autoscribe, begins his account of events taking us back to the moment when Jon Wilberfoss is invited to captain the huge interstellar mercy ship, The Nightingale. Audio

James is suffering from a bad case of pedantry and is forced to join Pedantics Anonymous. Audio

Academy Award winner Bret McKenzie and Emmy-nominated Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords, with actor and playwright Nigel Collins. Audio