The Future's Not What It Used To Be

Episodes

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01Broken Dreams2008080420090824 (R3)Contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s - by Edward Bellamy and William Morris.
02Trust Me, I'm A Scientist2008080620090826 (R3)Looking at H G WELLS and Aldous Huxley's questioning whether can science mend broken dreams
03Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid2008080720090827 (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.