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The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne

7.45pm BBC2

Documentary assessing the prophetic imagination of Jules Verne (pictured), the father of science fiction. With the help of his great- grandson, Jean- Jules, and the sci-fi author Bruce Sterling, the programme visits many of the places where the writer lived and worked and, using computer modelling, creates, for the first time, some of his prescient inventions.

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2pm & 5.30pm E4

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