Mars
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Mars
A season of programmes from Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra exploring the Red Planet of our dreams and, maybe, our futures...
Recent Episodes
12 episodesA Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong
The planet Mars boasts the most dramatic landscapes in our solar system. In a programme first broadcast in March, 2013, Kevin Fong embarks on a grand...
Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 5
Francis Spufford moves through an eerily silent London from Exhibition Road, where Wells had eagerly attended the lectures of biologist Thomas Huxley,...
Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 4
Red weed floats down the Thames by Kew Bridge. The Martians are busy aero-forming Earth to make it more like their dying Martian home. The South East...
Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 3
The inexorable progress of the Martian War machines meets an attempt at organized military response at Shepperton. It is desperate and doomed yet not...
We Are The Martians: Start Up Planet
For Radio 4's Mars series, Kevin Fong asks: what future do we have on Mars when we finally get there? He talks to scientists and writers about their v...
Moving to the Red Planet
As we dream of sending humans to Mars, the psychological problems of a mission loom large. As part of Radio 4's Mars season. Claudia Hammond investiga...
Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 2
Francis Spufford wheels his bicycle along Maybury Road and through Woking to consider the delight which HG Wells took in destroying a place he had onl...
We Are the Martians: A New Red World
Ken Hollings continues the series that revels in the Mars of imagination, history and science.
Feminists, Christians, peace loving druids, veget...
Following the Martian Invasion: Episode 1
Francis Spufford begins his journey following H.G. Wells' Martian invaders at the Basingstoke Canal that runs through Woking. Here Wells canoed with h...
We Are the Martians: Seeing Is Believing
Sarah Dillon begins a series revelling in the Mars of imagination, science and history.
We are the Martians, perhaps the only consciousness the...
Hunting the Martians
As part of Radio 4's Mars season, planetary scientist Monica Grady explores the search for life on the Red Planet.
As a small rocky planet, Mar...