Very British Futures
Episodes
Alternative 3
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Very British Futures, the podcast where we explore Britain’s past visions of tomorrow on the small screen — the futures that became par...
Terrahawks
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Gareth Preston is joined by Ken Moss and Andrew Roe-Crines to venture into one of the quirkier corners of British science fiction tel...
The Guardians
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Very British Futures, Gareth is joined by writer Stephen Hatcher to explore The Guardians (ITV, 1971), the gripping 13-part dystopi...
Sapphire and Steel
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Med...
Codename: Icarus
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Very British Futures, the podcast that dives deep into the hidden vaults of British science fiction television, uncovering the bold, the bi...
The Tomorrow People
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special episode of Very British Futures, where we dive deep into the UK cult classics that shaped sci-fi television history. Today, we're...
Blake's 7
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Very British Futures—the show where cult British TV series get the future-facing conversations they deserve. In this episode, host Gareth...
Easter 2016 - Play for Tomorrow
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2016. Northern Ireland’s New Community College of Education is a symbol of integrated living between Protestant and Catholic communities. When found...
Shades - Play for Tomorrow
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1999.A time when technology has created a comfortable materially rich UK. The government has converted empty office blocks into luxury living accommod...
The Nuclear Family - Play for Tomorrow
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1999 and the Brown family are cooped up together in their family flat. Joe was made redundant at the start of the 80s, like most men in town. N...
Cricket - Play for Tomorrow
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A rare of example of a SF take of rural politics, set in Northumberland.The selection committee of Coanwood Cricket Club is meeting to decide the line...
Bright Eyes - Play for Tomorrow
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New Year’s Eve 1999. Great Britain is part of the European State. The Euro army is in the midst of a controversial war in the Middle East. Sam Howar...
Crimes - Play for Tomorrow
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A British prison at the beginning of the 21st Century. Psychologist Melvyn is leading a therapy group of prisoners. What constitutes a crime in the ne...
Out of this World
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Born of the world’s foremost science fiction imaginations...each week, a specially written hour long play of Tomorrow. Always different. Always c...
Cruise of the Gods
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science Fiction television is more that a genre, it’s a sub-culture. For this episode we’re stepping out one kind of imaginary world, and into one...
A for Andromeda
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A for Andromeda is a BBC science fiction TV series that originally aired in 1961. It was the first adult BBC science fiction series since the Quaterma...
Space: 1999
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine Star Trek designed by Stanley Kubrick and inhabited by a plethora of familiar (or soon to be familiar) British actors, led by three American T...
Stingray (Christmas Special)
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seasons greetings! Stingray is the iconic children's television series that captured the imagination of Sixties viewers. Created by the legendary...
The Day After Tomorrow
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating curio from producer Gerry Anderson's peak period, made in between seasons one and two of Space: 1999 and featuring many personnel ...
The Day of the Triffids
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham is one of the best known science fiction novels in Britain. For many viewers, the 1981 BBC adaptation remain...
Chocky
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chocky was a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, the final one published in his lifetime (1968). It tells the story of an 11 year old boy named Ma...
1984
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It wouldn't be claiming too much to say that George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 is one of the key books of post-war Britain and its influence is sti...
The Flipside of Dominick Hide & Another Flip for Dominick
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who hasn't dreamed of stepping into a time machine and whizzing off to an exciting historical destination? Dominick Hide certainly has, but he'...
The Aliens
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 kicks off with E4's seemingly little remembered comedy drama about extra-terrestrial immigrants - The Aliens. UK in the near future and human...
Outcasts
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Outcasts followed the trials of humanity's first, and it would seem, last colony on a new planet. A new frontier of hope for a better world, but dogge...
Kinvig
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Des Kinvig's small world is turned upside when he discovers one of his customers, sexy Miss Griffin is in fact an alien from Mercury, fighting a secre...
Out of the Unknown
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deep space explorers encountering strange new dangers. Mutant powers hidden among us. Futuristic societies with surprising moralities. Cutting edge te...
The Nightmare Man
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tourist season is over and Inverdee Island is closing down and preparing for the winter. But when the body of Shelia Anderson is discovered, seemi...
Threads
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's just another day in Sheffield, everyone going about their own affairs, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - a nuclear strike. When the survivo...
Star Cops
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mankind is busy colonising the solar system. Space stations in orbit, a busy moonbase, and pioneers on Mars. A new frontier however brings new op...
Max Headroom - 20 Minutes into the Future
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere in the world, sometime in the future where television is the only growth industry, star reporter Edison Carter is on the track of hot new st...
The Uninvited
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When retired photojournalist Steve Blake sees a man die in a car explosion, then meets the same man the next day apparently unscathed, it is the begin...
Star Maidens
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The rogue planet Medusa arrives in our solar system. Beneath its surface is an advanced alien civilisation where women rule and men are slaves. Adam a...
The Tripods
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earth 2089. A time of peace and contentment thanks to the benevolent rule of the Tripods, huge machine beings who "cap" teenagers to make them product...
Knights of God
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the near-future (2020!) post civil war Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship - The Knights of God. A young man called Gervaise becomes a key ...
Pathfinders in Space
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the space age, a plucky band of scientists and children launch into adventures on the Moon, Mars and Venus. They are - Pathfinders...
Very British Futures (Trailer)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas