About this episode

This episode features a sci-fi short story titled 'Missionaries' by Roger Ley, exploring themes of distrust and alien encounters through the perspective of a war veteran.

Missionaries ep. 826 Roger Ley has self-published eight novels and one anthology of speculative stories. He was born and educated mainly in London, but spent some of his formative years in Saudi Arabia. Later, he worked as an engineer in the oilfields of North Africa and in the North Sea before starting a career in higher education teaching computer-aided engineering. His early articles appeared in publications including The Guardian, Reader's Digest, The Oldie, and Best of British. His short stories have been published on a multiplicity of websites and broadcast on BBC Radio. He lives in Suffolk (UK). Visit his website at rogerley.co.uk His Amazon author page is at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Roger-Ley/author/B01KOVZFHM More TTV Stories by Roger ley: https://talltaletv.com/tag/roger-ley/ ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.TallTaleTV.com ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- Hi there! My name is Chris Herron and I'm an audiobook narrator. In 2015, I suffered from poor Type 1 diabetes control which…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Herron

Guest: Roger Ley

Topics covered

• sci-fi
• aliens
• war veteran
• speculative fiction
• short story

Keywords

• sci-fi short story
• aliens
• war veteran
• Roger Ley
• speculative fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio

Places: London, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, North Sea, Suffolk

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