Dan Dare had secured the rights to produce a new Dan Dare audio drama series from the Dan Dare Corporation. The lead writers were announced as Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle, with Andrew Mark Sewell as director and Simon Moorhead as producer; John Freeman would serve as creative consultant. The first volume, released in 2016, starred Ed Stoppard as Dan Dare, Geoff McGivern as Digby, Heida Reed as Professor Peabody, Raad Rawi as the Mekon and Bijan Daneshmand as Sondar; Volume 2 was released in 2017. BBC Radio 4 Extra began airing the B7 episodes in August 2018. In the 1980s, a
Lion (comics) Lion (comics) Lion was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway (a subsidiary of IPC, the International Publishing Corporation) from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues. "Lion" was first published on 23 February 1952, and was a weekly boys' adventure comic designed to compete with "Eagle", the popular weekly comic that had introduced Dan Dare. "Lion"s first issue contained a mix of text stories and comic strips; its flagship story was "Captain Condor – Space Ship Pilot", a science fiction adventure in the Dan Dare mould. The premiere issue also contained the first