5. Man Becomes a Different Animal

Wells arrives in a distant future where humanity as we know it is extinct. How will he get his bicycle repaired now?

Following H. G. Wells' hurried departure from Orwell's world of 1984, his malfunctioning time-bicycle veers into the far and bizarre future that he will one day chronicle in his own novella, The Time Machine. Facing off against super-evolved pale blue cannibals, he's relieved to run into a couple of unexpected familiar faces.

CAST:

• Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells;
• Tara Court as Julia;
• Canavan Connolly as the Morlock;
• Robin Johnson as George Orwell and Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Captain Rutherford.

Written and produced by Robin Johnson, with music by the author and sound effects sourced from freesound.org.

References:

• H. G. Wells' The Time Machine is in the public domain, and can be found at Project Gutenberg.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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