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Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 5
Francis Spufford and guests consider why Wells's War of the Worlds still resonates.
Francis Spufford moves through an eerily silent London from Exhibition Road, where Wells had eagerly attended the lectures of biologist Thomas Huxley, onto the outskirts of Primrose Hill: the last staging post of the Martians who meet their microbial end overlooking the ruined city as Victorian's count their biological blessings.
Joining Francis are the science fiction writers Ian McDonald and Stephen Baxter, author of the new sequel to War of the Worlds.
Why does Wells's tale still resonate 120 years after its publication?
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