1943: Reshaping Man's Heritage - HG Wells

While war still rages in Europe, writer and broadcaster HG Wells looks to the future and asks whether humanity can adapt and forge a "new world" free from "economic and political aggression against each other". He stresses the requirement for a centralised, global power, above that of individual nations, and the need to ensure that there is no further use for slavery.

Wells also believes that no race should ever be considered "backward", that the supreme task is the re-education of the world and that we must never allow the "black record of intolerance to hold us back".

From the BBC Archives. Originally broadcast 15 January 1943.