The Martians and Us

The End of the World As We Know It (1x3)

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The last programme in this history of British science fiction looks at the great British genre of destruction. Catastrophe stories are the bad boys of science fiction: where the writers abandon time travel and alien invasion and declare the end of the world as we know it. We've been repeatedly swamped and flooded, killed off by plagues, poisonous clouds and walking plants – from late Victorian disasters like The Purple Cloud, through Day of the Triffids and TV series like Survivors. But is there life in the post-apocalyptic after Hitchhikers?