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The Future's Not What it Used to Be

Richard Foster explores literary visions of utopia, asking where it all went wrong

First Broadcast4 Aug 2008

Latest Broadcast27 Aug 2009

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The threat of nuclear/environmental holocaust, explored by writers such as Neville Shute.

Contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s - by Edward Bellamy and William Morris.

Looking at HG Wells and Aldous Huxley's questioning whether can science mend broken dreams