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From Apes to Aliens

Episode number: 1

Overview: This edition looks at our relationship with aliens, from Wells's invading Martians to the Daleks.

Trouble in Paradise

Episode number: 2

Overview: The utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares of books like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984.

The End of the World as We Know It

Episode number: 3

Overview: A look at the genre of destruction, where writers declare the end of the world.