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  1. H.G.wells Radio Broadcasts (2006)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £9.95

    This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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  2. Bernard Shaw Radio Broadcasts (2006)

    Subject
    Drama; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 129 minutes), £15.95

    Bernard Shaw was a prominent figure in the early years of radio in Britain. Despite a sometimes tense relationship with the BBC, fuelled by his determination to use the new medium to promote some of his more...

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  3. H.G. Wells: The Spoken Word (2006)

    Subject
    Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £10.00

    This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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  4. War of the Worlds, The (1953 Video)

    Director
    Byron Haskin
    Producer
    George Pal
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    Film adaptation of H G Wells’ novel about the invasion of earth by Martians, which terrified American listeners in a radio dramatisation by Orson Welles in 1938.

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  5. Things to Come (1936 Film)

    Director
    William Cameron Menzies
    Producer
    Alexander Korda
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. Forecasts that World War II would cause the collapse of civilisation to be replaced by a life of Arcadian simplicity. Science takes over with an invention of a ‘space gun’ which shoots...

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  6. Island of Lost Souls (1932 Film)

    Producer
    Erle C. Kenton
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £12.99

    Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...

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