The Royal Northern College of Music's archive of pianist/composer John Ogdon's papers includes an incomplete vocal score entitled A voyage to Arcturus, being an opera "based on the novel by David Lindsay and biblical quotations" comprising two books of music manuscript, dated February and June 1984. The music is dedicated "with gratitude and affection to David Chamberlain and the Mansfield Choral Society and to Arthur Scargill and Mr. MacGregor in memory of the Miners' Strike."

Another item of interest in the Ogdon Papers is the score to Kaleidoscope #8, the eighth in a series of 10 sonatas for solo piano, itself subdivided into 10 pieces, one of which is called "The song of Joiwind — from A voyage to Arcturus". Kaleidoscope #8 is subtitled "Woodcuts of BBC Radio (1928-1950)", its music being inspired by broadcasts put out by the BBC, which probably means that Ogdon heard the BBC dramatisation of Arcturus. (There is also a piece in Kaleidoscope #8 titled "Titus Groan — Boy in Darkness".)

See this page for a complete listing of the Ogdon Papers.