Arts

Mars

BBC

A season of programmes from Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra exploring the Red Planet of our dreams and, maybe, our futures...

Episodes

12 episodes

The planet Mars boasts the most dramatic landscapes in our solar system. In a programme first broadcast in March, 2013, Kevin Fong embarks o...

28:42Mar 10, 2017

Francis Spufford moves through an eerily silent London from Exhibition Road, where Wells had eagerly attended the lectures of biologist Thom...

14:22Mar 10, 2017

With Francien Stock and Adam Rutherford.

57:42Mar 10, 2017

Red weed floats down the Thames by Kew Bridge. The Martians are busy aero-forming Earth to make it more like their dying Martian home. The S...

14:17Mar 9, 2017

The inexorable progress of the Martian War machines meets an attempt at organized military response at Shepperton. It is desperate and doome...

14:07Mar 8, 2017

For Radio 4's Mars series, Kevin Fong asks: what future do we have on Mars when we finally get there? He talks to scientists and writers abo...

42:26Mar 8, 2017

As we dream of sending humans to Mars, the psychological problems of a mission loom large. As part of Radio 4's Mars season. Claudia Hammond...

28:33Mar 7, 2017

Francis Spufford wheels his bicycle along Maybury Road and through Woking to consider the delight which HG Wells took in destroying a place...

14:28Mar 7, 2017

Ken Hollings continues the series that revels in the Mars of imagination, history and science. Feminists, Christians, peace loving druids, v...

42:13Mar 7, 2017

Francis Spufford begins his journey following H.G. Wells' Martian invaders at the Basingstoke Canal that runs through Woking. Here Wells can...

14:29Mar 7, 2017

Sarah Dillon begins a series revelling in the Mars of imagination, science and history. We are the Martians, perhaps the only consciousness...

46:40Mar 7, 2017

As part of Radio 4's Mars season, planetary scientist Monica Grady explores the search for life on the Red Planet. As a small rocky planet,...

28:22Mar 6, 2017