The Shape of Things That Came
4 Extra Debut. HG Wells's future history novel looks back from the year 2106. Sean Street examines the author鈥檚 predictions. From 2021.
HG Wells' 1933 classic looks back from the year 2106, in a purported history of the years 1929 to 2105, received from the future in dreams.
When this programme was aired in 2021 - 92 years into the timescale of the book and with 84 more to go - poet and Professor of Radio, Sean Street, explored the text to establish what Wells got right, what he got wrong - and what may turn out to be prophetic.
With the aid of contemporary news bulletins, audio archives 鈥� including Orson Welles - and with expert help from Christopher Frayling and Andy Sawyer, Sean navigates through Wells' future past
Readings by Jenny Lane.
Producer: Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in 2017 and revised in 2021.
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