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Astronomer and Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott and the Telegraph's Chief music critic Neil McCormick discuss Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon with Harriett Gilbert.

Chris suspects that Harriett and Neil will hate the book, which describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years.

Originally broacast on A Good Read 16 March 2012 麻豆约拍 Radio 4

Photograph courtesy of Olaf Stapledon Archive, University of Liverpool Library