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Episode 2

HG Wells The First Men in the Moon
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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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2009.

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