A Modern Utopia Podcast Episodes

Written by H.G. Wells , Gregory Claeys , Francis Wheen

6 Episodes - 320 pages - ★★★ - 564 ratings

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Chapter 5: A Failure in a Modern Utopia, Sections 1-3

Modern Utopia, A by WELLS, H. G. - - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern Utopia (1905). A Modern Utopia was intended as a hyb...
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Chapter 5: A Failure in a Modern Utopia, Sections 4-8

Modern Utopia, A by WELLS, H. G. - - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern Utopia (1905). A Modern Utopia was intended as a hyb...
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Chapter 6: Women in a Modern Utopia, Sections 1-4

Modern Utopia, A by WELLS, H. G. - - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern Utopia (1905). A Modern Utopia was intended as a hyb...
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Chapter 6: Women in a Modern Utopia, Sections 5-6

Modern Utopia, A by WELLS, H. G. - - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the remainder of his life. One of his most ambitious early attempts at portraying a world state was A Modern Utopia (1905). A Modern Utopia was intended as a hyb...
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A Modern Utopia w/ Adam Roberts

Utopian Horizons - August 01, 2017 19:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
HG Wells' novel A Modern Utopia is the subject of this episode. Science fiction writer and academic Adam Roberts joins me to talk about its good ideas, like a UBI, and its bad ones, like eugenics. Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopias, real and imaginary. Each episode covers a different ...
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The Economist asks: What would a modern utopia look like?

The Economist Podcasts - March 09, 2017 18:54 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 2.8K ratings
In this special episode, Anne McElvoy interviews best-selling author Rutger Bregman in front of a live studio audience at the RSA in London. His book, "Utopia for Realists" advocates that we re-embrace grand dreams of progress. But history has its share of dangerous utopian fanatics - so why revi...
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