News From Nowhere dramatised on Radio 4 today

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  • May 25, 2016 at 2:08 pm #84839
    DJP
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    http://bbc.in/1TJagVY

    May 25, 2016 at 5:37 pm #119879
    imposs1904
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    Cheers for the heads up. I never did finish the novel.

    May 25, 2016 at 10:42 pm #119880
    ALB
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    Actually it's quite a good adaptation.

    May 25, 2016 at 10:53 pm #119881
    alanjjohnstone
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    Unlike television iPlayer i can get UK radio on the internet. Will seek it out later

    May 27, 2016 at 10:49 am #119882
    Young Master Smeet
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    No mobile phones?  The problem of updating the story, would we really do without phone signal in Socialism?  Still, hopefully absolutely no-one will record a copy or two at HO….

    May 27, 2016 at 12:17 pm #119883
    ALB
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    This year is the bicentenary of the first working telegraph by Francis Ronalds in his house in Hammersmith Mall. According to an article in the Chiswick Herald  (12 May, scroll down to page 33) this was the house where William Morris lived later and part of which is now the headquarters of the William Morris Society :

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    A plaque on the house commemorates Ronalds’ achievement. It is seen near the top of the former stable, where the equipment at one end of the telegraph was once positioned. A famous later owner, William Morris, had agreed “reluctantly” that it could be put up – after explaining that he “doubted which has been the greatest curse to mankind – railways or telegraphs”.

    So it would be fair to assume that Morris wouldn't have approved of mobile phone either but there is an electric barge in News from Nowhere. He sounds like an Old Grumbler.

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