The Essay - The Future's Not What it Used to Be
Richard Foster explores literary visions of utopia, asking where it all went wrong
The Essay - The Future's Not What it Used to Be - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
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.
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The Essay - The Future's Not What it Used to Be - Broken Dreams
Richard Foster looking at two contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s: Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy and William Morris's News from Nowhere.
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The Essay - The Future's Not What it Used to Be - Trust Me, I'm a Scientist
Richard Foster on how in the 1930s, HG Wells and Aldous Huxley asked the next big question: can science mend our broken dreams?
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