Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 3: The Time Machine — Part Two

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 3: The Time Machine — Part Two | KacheliTV World Classics The Time Machine continues. In Part One of the telling, the Time Traveller rode his machine to the year 802,701, found the little Eloi in their garden world above the Thames, and made a friend of Weena, whom he pulled from the river. In this second part he wakes to find the machine gone — and the search for it, and for the meaning of the bronze doors beneath the White Sphinx, drives him to the conclusion he resists with all his reason: that the beautiful, helpless Eloi are not the only heirs of mankind, and that the other race, which comes out only at night, holds both his machine and the secret of that world. Here are chapters six, seven and eight of the novel: the sunset of mankind, a sudden shock, and the explanation. The telling continues in Part Four of Voyages to Other Worlds. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:35 Voyages to Other Worlds — Part Three 2:51 Chapter Six — The Sunset of Mankind 19:46 Chapter Seven — A Sudden Shock 36:01 Chapter Eight — Explanation 67:09 Closing Theme Narrated by Felix. The text is told from the Project Gutenberg text of Wells's 1895 novel. Four brief passages in Chapter Seven, in which the Traveller handles the little people roughly in his frenzy, are not read; two period racial terms in Chapter Eight are given in neutral modern wording. Nothing else is altered, and the period descriptive terms of 1895 otherwise stand as printed. Music: 'Gangster Piano Symphony' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme and sounds between the chapters; 'Mountain Revelation' plays as the quiet background bed under the reading. Source text: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895), text from Project Gutenberg eBook #35, public domain. Part Two of the telling (chapters VI–VIII); the telling runs to four parts in all. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.