Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | Broken Dreams | 20080804 | 20090824 (R3) | Contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s - by Edward Bellamy and William Morris. |
02 | Trust Me, I'm A Scientist | 20080806 | 20090826 (R3) | Looking at H G WELLS and Aldous Huxley's questioning whether can science mend broken dreams |
03 | Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid | 20080807 | 20090827 (R3) | Richard Foster investigates the threat of nuclear and environmental holocaust, explored in novels such as Neville Shute's On the Beach and John Christopher's The Death of Grass. Is the appetite for apocalypse - religious or scientific - now fed by ecological concern and terrorism? Must we always live in fear, or is it a potent political tool? The threat of nuclear/environmental holocaust, explored by writers such as Neville Shute. |