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Free Thinking: Wells' Women
H G Wells -- the man, his women and his writing. Matthew Sweet chairs a discussion about the father of science fiction to open the London Liteature Festival at South Bank Centre. Joining him for the event are Louisa Treger, Mark Blacklock, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Priest.
Louisa Treger's novel The Lodger was inspired by Dorothy Richardson, one of the key women in Wells’ life.
Christopher Priest's books include The Space Machine and his latest, The Gradual which explores ideas about time. He 's Vice-President of the H. G. Wells Society.
Joanna Kavenna's latest novel is called A Field Guide to Reality.
Mark Blacklock teaches science fiction at Birkbeck College and is the author of The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle.
More information about anniversary events to mark 150 years since the birth of HG Wells are found at http://hgwellssociety.com/ .
Sound Frontiers: BBC Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre.
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H G Wells -- the man, his women and his writing. Matthew Sweet chairs a discussion about the father of science fiction to open the London Liteature Festival at South Bank Centre. Joining him for the event are Louisa Treger, Mark Blacklock, Joanna Kavenna and Christopher Priest.
Louisa Treger's novel The Lodger was inspired by Dorothy Richardson, one of the key women in Wells’ life.
Christopher Priest's books include The Space Machine and his latest, The Gradual which explores ideas about time. He 's Vice-President of the H. G. Wells Society.
Joanna Kavenna's latest novel is called A Field Guide to Reality.
Mark Blacklock teaches science fiction at Birkbeck College and is the author of The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle.
More information about anniversary events to mark 150 years since the birth of HG Wells are found at http://hgwellssociety.com/ .
Sound Frontiers: BBC Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre.
Celebrating 7 decades of pioneering music and culture.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
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