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Track 12 - HG Wells

Made for 4 Extra. Robert Bathurst reads The New Accelerator by HG Wells. Biographer Michael Sherborne explores the parallels between Wells and The Beatles.

For Track 12 we explore the links between HG Wells and The Beatles.

First we take a guide tour of Folkestone in Kent with the Wells biographer Michael Sherborne. He takes us to Wells' former home near the sea, and we visit the locations of his story 'The New Accelerator'.

Then we hear 'The New Accelerator, read by Robert Bathurst.

36 minutes

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Sun 4 Jun 201704:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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