News From Nowhere dramatised on Radio 4 today

[DJP]

http://bbc.in/1TJagVY

[imposs1904]

Cheers for the heads up. I never did finish the novel.

[ALB]

Actually it's quite a good adaptation.

[alanjjohnstone]

Unlike television iPlayer i can get UK radio on the internet. Will seek it out later

[Young Master Smeet]

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….

[ALB]

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 :

Quote:

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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