Christopher Eccleston, MyAnna Buring, Nikki Amuka-Bird, James McVinnie

Listen as three actors read H.G. Wells’ early science fiction classic to open London Literature Festival.

Time travel has long been one of the great tropes of science fiction, but it was one 1895 novella that lodged the concept firmly in the public imagination. Blazing a trail across the epochs long before Doc Brown’s DeLorean or Doctor Who’s Tardis, H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine popularised the idea that one might travel through time much as we travel through space.