Oneira

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Oneira

Genre	Radio drama
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring	Lyndsey Marshal Peter Marinker
Written by	Robert Easby
Produced by	Liz Webb
Original release	3 September – 7 September 2007
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	5
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Website	Oneira at BBC Radio 4 Extra

Oneira^[1] is a science fiction comedy written for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Robert Easby. It tells a surreal story of the encounter between a young museum guard, called Oneira, and a 400-year-old alchemist calling himself Nikolai. Nikolai claims to be the artist who painted one of the pictures hanging in the museum. The painting includes a figure who resembles Nikolai himself. He also tells Oneira that he and she are destined to search for a book of alchemy called the Lux Ata or "Book of Black Light". The resulting quest involves aliens, string theory, a sinister official from the electricity board called "Mister Resistor", a TV cooking show, a cappuccino bar, a comedian travelling by flying saucer, and a dead science fiction author. Oneira's boyfriend Pete is transformed from an up-and-coming young financier in the City into a bucket of water and a pair of Argyll socks while their expensive penthouse flat is destroyed by a ravenous refrigerator.

• Oneira - Lyndsey Marshal
• Nikolai - Peter Marinker
• Other parts - Joseph Kloska, Gerard McDermott, Saikat Ahamed, Chas Early, Jon Glover, Christine Kavanagh, Bethan Walker, Sam Dale, Anna Wing, Mark Straker