Imagining Albion: The Great British Future

Starmakers

Thursday 13 July 2006 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Monday 17 July 2006 0:15-0:45 (Radio 4 FM)

Francis Spufford explores the history of British science fiction and how it has imagined the future.

Francis wonders whether we ever truly belonged among the stars. American science fiction presented an ever confident vision of progress and conquest, but the stars have often seemed an unlikely British destination.

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Imagining Albion: The Great British Future

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