Episode 7.10

Hearing from industry influencer Tony Close that the future of sci-fi is - again! - steam punk, Alan is nevertheless keen to avoid the fiasco of Ken Branagh’s disastrous foray into that genre. For Alan, the 1960 version of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine is the mother lode: boyish Victorian optimism wrecked on the rocks of the Universe’s indifference.

But might his attempt at honest flattery have blurred into plagiarism?