A Hundred Yards Over the Rim is a radio adaption from 2009 of a famous 1961 television episode of The Twilight Zone written by Rod Serling. The year is 1847 and Christian Horn is part of a small wagon train heading across the desert from Ohio to California. His son though is laid up in one of the wagons and has become very ill. Horn needs to find medicine, food and water as soon as possible and leaves the party to head off alone and look for a town or some help. He sets off and eventually stumbles over a sandy hill rim where he is astonished to suddenly see telephone poles and a huge motorway (or highway as the Americans would say). A huge lorry thunders past and scares .  Read the complete review