The War of the Worlds based on the H G Wells novel, adapted by Sean Duvall

WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2022 - SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2022

Directed by Sean Duvall

The Harlequin Broadcasting Company bring you an adaptation of H G Well’s 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

When an alien capsule lands on Horsell Common, Woking, crowds of astonished onlookers gather. But wonder soon turns to terror when the Martians emerge. Armed with deadly heat rays, the aliens begin their conquest of earth. Confronted by powers beyond our control, a technology far in advance of our own, and a race of alien invaders which regard us as no more than ants, humankind faces extinction

“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

— H. G. Wells (1898), The War of the Worlds