Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 5: The Time Machine — Part Four

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Voyages to Other Worlds — Part 5: The Time Machine — Part Four | KacheliTV World Classics The Time Machine concludes. Armed with a lever from the Palace of Green Porcelain, a handful of matches and a lump of camphor, the Time Traveller leads Weena back through the forest to the White Sphinx, behind whose bronze doors his machine is hidden — but the moon is gone, the nights belong to the Morlocks, and the Morlocks are hungry. Ahead lie the fight in the darkness and the fire he sets to escape it, in which Weena is lost; the trap of the White Sphinx; a last journey onward, past the end of the Eloi and the Morlocks altogether, to the dying earth under a great red sun; and then the return to the Richmond dining-room, and the two strange flowers. This is the fourth part of the telling, and the last: chapters twelve to sixteen of the novel, and its epilogue. Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices. Chapters 0:35 Voyages to Other Worlds — Part Five 2:25 Chapter Twelve — In the Darkness 19:39 Chapter Thirteen — The Trap of the White Sphinx 27:12 Chapter Fourteen — The Further Vision 40:45 Chapter Fifteen — The Time Traveller's Return 44:28 Chapter Sixteen — After the Story 54:00 Epilogue 56:46 Closing Theme Narrated by Magnolia. The text is told exactly as Wells published it, from the Project Gutenberg text; no rendering was altered in these chapters, and the period descriptive terms of 1895 stand as printed. Music: 'Golden Hour Raga' (instrumental) opens and closes the programme and sounds between the chapters; 'Clarinet at Dawn' 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 Four of the telling (chapters XII–XVI and the Epilogue); with this part, The Time Machine is complete in four parts. Recorded for KacheliTV. KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.