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  1. The Future From Here

    10/10 Are we more, or less, anxious about what is to come than we ever were?

  2. George Orwell

    9/10 Juliet Gardiner considers George Orwell's haunting visions of the near-future.

  3. HG Wells

    8/10 Juliet Gardiner looks at the dystopian predictions of the father of science fiction.

  4. Marx

    7/10 Karl Marx believed that the future was predetermined by inexorable economic forces.

  5. Malthus

    6/10 Juliet Gardiner considers an 18th-century economist's warnings about population growth.

  6. Leonardo da Vinci

    5/10 Juliet Gardiner looks at Renaissance visionary and polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

  7. Nostradamus

    4/10 Juliet Gardiner looks at history's most famous futurologist, Nostradamus.

  8. The Book of Revelation

    3/10 Juliet Gardiner on the apocalyptic visions of Divine judgement in the Book of Revelation.

  9. The Druids

    2/10 How the Druids' mysterious divining ceremonies foretold the future.

  10. The Oracle of Delphi

    1/10 Juliet Gardiner on the Oracle of Delphi where Ancient Greeks heard their future predicted.

  11. Omnibus: Part 2 - Malthus

    Juliet considers the dire warnings on population growth from the 18th-century economist.

  12. Omnibus: Part 1 - The Oracle of Delphi

    Juliet Gardiner begins her look at the futurologists of the past with the Oracle of Delphi