![]() Having down-sized to a homely country cottage while trying to write a play, he found himself disturbed by the nutty Professor wandering past his front gate making peculiar absent-minded noises (Mark Gatiss and Rory Kinnear, pictured below). Alongside him was Rory Kinnear - steadily morphing into the spitting image of his dad Roy - as Julius Bedford, a disreputable chancer ruined in a bad business deal and now scuffling around for any opportunity to make a fast buck. Once more, the Stakhanovite Gatiss led from the front, writing the script as well as taking the role of Cavor. It's an enduringly fashionable viewpoint, nonetheless. The book's message about the evils of imperialist adventurism isn't really necessary in today's defence-cuts Britain, where it's beginning to look as if we'd struggle to mount a seaborne assault on the Beachy Head lighthouse. ![]() In that case, what could be more appropriate than an update of H G Wells's novel The First Men in the Moon, originally published in 1901? The protagonist, the charmingly eccentric scientist and inventor Professor Arthur Cavor, could have been the Doctor Who of his era, with his enlightened views on progress and social harmony. ![]()
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