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Fullcast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction

Dark and disturbing provocative and prescient dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds Included here are six classic novels of timetravel totalitarianism and terror written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with allstar casts

The Time Machine by HG Wells A Victorian inventor takes a fateful journey into the far future where mankind has diverged into two species the Eloi and the Morlocks Robert Glenister and William Gaunt star in this pioneering science fiction adventure

We by Evgeny Zamyatin In a postrevolutionary future OneState is ruled according to the principles of rationality The penalty for dissent is death But when engineer D503 meets the beautiful 1330 he begins to question everything Starring Anton Lesser Don Warrington and Brigit Forsyth

The Trial by Franz Kafka Josef K is an ordinary man who lives a quiet life Then one morning he is awoken by two men and arrested but what is his crime Mike Gwylim stars in this gripping dramatisation by Hanif Kureishi

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Its 2116 and Helmholtz Watson and Bernard Marx are token rebels in a society where eugenics promiscuity and happiness are gently enforced Into this world comes an outsider John who will show the duo what rebellion really means Starring Justin Salinger John Coy and Milton Lopes

Nineteen EightyFour by George Orwell Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth rewriting history to suit the Party When he finds love with Julia he awakens to new possibilities but free thinking is forbidden and Big Brother is always watching Christopher Eccleston and Pippa Nixon star in Orwells chilling tale

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham In a postapocalyptic world devastated by genetic mutation the Godrespecting people of Waknuk regard deviation as the work of the Devil Young David and his friends can communicate by telepathy but as Mutants they must hide their powers or face the consequences of discovery Starring Matthew Beard VerityMay Henry and Emma Cunniffe

First published 1899 The Time Machine 1921 We 1925 The Trial 1932 Brave New World 1949 Nineteen EightyFour 1955 The Chrysalids

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