H. G. Wells

A mysterious man, muffled to his goggled eyes in hat and coat, arrives on foot at the village of Iping in a snowstorm, and takes up residence at the local inn. Despite the Godsend of a paying guest in the middle of winter, the landlady and her husband are very soon much disquieted by the traveller.

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating...

Penguin Classics presents H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Brian Cox. 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim...