The Intergalatic Empress’ holiday message! Not self-explanatory? Well, those of you who grew up anywhere in the so-called British Commonwealth will remember that every year since 1957, Queen Elizabeth II has broadcast an “address” by radio and television; a tidy, polite little homily for all those millions of people who aren’t often referred to as her subjects these days, and that’s everywhere from Nova Scotia to New Zealand, where I grew up around the same time the counter reformation was going on in Italy. The Queen’s Christmas message was certainly compulsory viewing in my family’s living room back in the year dot. More recently, in a recording studio in London it provided inspiration for a voiceover in a series of animations called the ”Space Cadet Reports”. I wrote and with my phenomally talented brother Craig Young, voiced 26 of these 2-3 minute long interstitials commissioned by the British Sci Fi Channel. You can see 10 of the 26 episodes here if you are game for an inter-galactic giggle – or just click play below for a special Christmas treat. It’s actually Craig doing all the voices in this one – including the garbled screaming and clicking of the Laburian Empress, Chanwick Wahtoosie III, heard here in a rare and brief recording.