The Martians and Us - BBC4

[Rob]

Bit more information about the upcoming BBC4 programmes.


THE MARTIANS AND US
STARTS: Monday 13 November 2006 on BBC4

As the centrepiece of BBC Four's Science Fiction Britannia season, this three-part documentary explores how UK writers pioneered and remained in the vanguard of one of the world's most popular literary genres.


1. FROM APES TO ALIENS

Monday 13 November 9pm-10pm;

rpt Wednesday 15 November 7pm-8pm;

rpt midnight-1am; rpt Friday 17 November 2.25am-3.25am (Thursday night; signed)

How HG Wells captured mankind's fascination with its own evolution, inventing a new kind of novel in the process


2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Monday 20 November TBC

Exploring the frighteningly convincing future dystopias imagined by Orwell, Huxley, Burgess and others


3. THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Monday 27 November TBC

British portrayals of the annihilation of humanity, by scientific folly or alien attack

[jeffwaynefan]

This sounds pretty good for BBC4

[FALLINGSTAR]

Great - I've just got a shed load of new channels so I'll have a look see if I've got BBC4.

[FALLINGSTAR]

Here's the schedule I have for tonight [ it's from the Daily Mail Magazine so check just in case it's wrong ]


7.10pm Doctor Who [ 1st Jon Pertwee ]
8.00 The World
8.30 Day of the Triffids
9.00 The Martians and Us
10.00 A for Andromeda [ remake of 60s tale ]
11.25 HG Wells War with the World [ looks like a repeat of the BBC2 drama/doc ]
12.55a.m. HG Wells and me

[jeffwaynefan]

Watchable - Really didn't tell us anything about H.G that we didn't already know. Nice use of images and old footage to set the scenes right during quotes from the various novels like 'The Time Machine' and 'The War Of The Worlds'

[Rob]

I bloody missed it!

[FALLINGSTAR]

I've only watched HG Wells and Me and a bit of The Martians and Us so far. Pretty good prgrammes with some nice clips of Horsell Common and the church etc. Interesting to see that this was made before Spielbergs film came out and that Jonathan Ross said that judging by his recent movies - he didn't have much faith in Spielberg for WOTW.

[the Donal]

I missed the first part, but really enjoyed the Utopia programme- it still amazese me how right George Orwell is on so many levels- sometimes, it's quite scary.