The First Men in the Moon

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HG Wells

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HG Wells: The First Men in the Moon: Episode 2

HG Wells - The First Men in the Moon

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Episode 2

A penniless businessman meets an absent-minded scientist with a dream.

Cavor and Bedford travel to the moon, where they encounter a strange and dangerous new world. Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

Cavor has invented a new material blocking the effect of gravity. 

After covering a sphere with the substance, he and Mr Bedford travel far from Earth to the Moon's surface.

Here they encounter a strange new world...and new life forms.

HG Wells’s novel first published in 1901.

Abridged by Neville Teller.

Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

Producer: David Roper

A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2009.

HG Wells: The First Men in the Moon

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Penniless businessman Mr Bedford meets the brilliant Cavor, a scientist with a dream.

Penniless businessman Mr Bedford meets the brilliant Cavor, an absent-minded scientist with a dream. Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

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