BBC Radio 4, readings from H G Wells
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the Shape of Things to Come By H. G. Wells Introduction. The Dream Book of Dr Philip Craven. The Unexpected Death of Dr Philip Craven at Geneva in November 1930. All this time I have been holding back and manuscript, or rather, a collection of papers and writings entrusted to me. It is a collection about which I think a considerable amount of hesitation, wass and perhaps is still justifiable. It is, or at least it professes to be a short history of the world. For about the next century and 1/2 I can quite understand that the reader will rub his eyes at these words and suspect the printer of some sort of a graphia. But that is exactly what this manuscript is. It is a short history of the future. It is a modern civilian book. War came at last in 1940. The particular incident that led to actual warfare in Europe was due to a Polish commercial traveller. A poll of Jewish origin who was so ill advised us to have trouble with an ill fitting dental plate during the halt of his train in Danzig. This obscure disease, hitherto known only as a disease of captive baboons seems to have undergone some abrupt adaptation to the kindred habitat of the human body at this point, Ravens copied out Manuscript Comes to an End It seems to me a little abruptly, but it is tthe e end. I have called that manuscript a dream book, Wasit A Dream book Or was it indeed, as he declared and believed it to be a vision of the shape of things to come.