Audio/Visuals
BBC radio interviews conducted with H.G. Wells
About this collection
In the 1930s and 40s, novelist HG Wells (1866-1946) made regular radio broadcasts from the BBC to the nation. Some have survived the passage of time and they reveal just a hint of the creative mind that gave us such science-fiction classics as 'The Time Machine', 'The War of the Worlds' and 'The First Men in the Moon'.
Hear Wells in his own words as he discusses topics as diverse as world politics, the history of the printing press, the possibilities of technology and the shape of things to come...
Wells was a public figure of much influence for most of his life beginning in the 1890s. His opinions, predictions, and observations were eagerly sought after by a public hungry for guidance in a rapidly changing world in which the imperial certainties of the British Empire were giving way to a dimished role for Great Britain in the world. Through his books, newspaper articles, and public talks he delivered answers of startling predictive scope.
Below you will find radio interviews, documentaries on Wells and his works, as well as the controversy surrounding the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles.
