Mars Podcast
1) A 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 tour around the planet with scientists, artists an...Show More
2) 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, onto the outskirts of Primrose Hill: the last sta...Show More
3) Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film
With Francien Stock and Adam Rutherford.
4) 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 lies in ruins and London is abandoned. Meanwhile ...Show More
5) 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 without limited success. Joining Francis along th...Show More
6) 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 visions of a human presence and purpose on the Red ...Show More
7) 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 investigates the mind-set behind the desire of those of us ...Show More
8) 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 only just recently arrived at. Woking, the land of th...Show More
9) 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, vegetarian fruitarian dwarves, Bolsheviks and big science te...Show More
10) 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 his lover amidst the wild vegetation and dreamed ab...Show More