Synopsis
To mark Wells's 150th birthday Dominic Sandbrook discovers how a sleepy corner of the country inspired some of the most fantastic ideas in science fiction.
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In Our Time | The Time Machine
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and anxieties in late Victorian London, explored by HG Wells in his story of time travel, evolution and a planet unfit for humans.
Drama on 3 | The Time Machine
Robert Glenister stars in Philip Osment's dramatisation of HG Wells's classic story of a time-traveller's journey to the future, where mankind has diverged into two species.