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Jonathan Pryce reads from HG Wells's classic horror story about the nightmarish excesses of biological experimentation.
Edward Prendick is the only survivor of a shipwreck. He is picked up by a passing boat containing a strange cargo of unusual animals and even stranger humans.
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Mon 21 Jul 200822:45
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