Friday, October 14, 2016

Wells at the Whipple

Festival of Ideas: Space Oddities

5pm - 8pm, Friday 21st October. Drop in, 15+.

Before Virgin Galactic, before the Space Race, even before the Wright Brothers' first flight, the human imagination was sending astronauts to the Moon. Explore early manifestations of space travel in film, radio, fiction and popular culture. Robert Lloyd Parry will be reading from Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H G Wells' The First Men in the Moon, we'll be showing George Melies' Le Voyage dans la Lune, playing Buck Rogers radio shows and demonstrating objects that depict early theme park ride 'A Trip to the Moon'.

H.G. Wells readings

12pm - 1pm, Fridays in November. Ticketed, ages 16+, free.

Robert Lloyd Parry specialises in retelling the classic tales of the late 19th century, works by the likes of M R James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and - in this the 150th anniversary of his birth - H G Wells. Four of his best short 'scientific romances' will be read in the eminently atmospheric surrounding of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

Friday 4th November - The Crystal Egg

Friday 11th November - The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes

Friday 18th November - The New Accelerator

Friday 25th November - The Sea Raiders

Attendance is free but must be booked by emailing hps-events@lists.cam.ac.uk

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