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John Wyndham

First broadcast: 6 September 1960

Derek Hart speaks to novelist John Wyndham, whose science fiction novels include The Kraken Wakes and The Day of the Triffids. As his latest novel, Trouble with Lichen, reaches bookshops across the country, the author is quizzed about the limits of evil as represented in his books, and how the attitude of British readers towards science fiction differs from that of their US counterparts.

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