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Untrue Stories7. A Night Scene featuring The Midnight PalsHalloween special featuring bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals! In a quest to resurrect a Morlock, Orwell and Wells find themselves in a weird metaphysical forest inhabited by historical horror writers, and attempt to impress Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe around the campfire.The Midnight Pals is created by bitter karella. You can follow their antics on Twitter at https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. They are currently crowdfunding for their third book! More details at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/submitted-for-the-approval-of-the-midnight-pals-3CAST Robin Johnson as George OrwellPatrick Sp...2022-10-2925 min
Untrue Stories6. The Wonderful VisitOrwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale. Wells arrives back on the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere. CAST Robin Johnson as George OrwellPatrick Spragg as H. G. WellsRachel Pulliam as Ursula Le GuinLiselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Chief RutherfordTara Court as JuliaAlexander Paul Walsh as Isaac AsimovDavid Court as Ray BradburyCanavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the MorlockJoanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchettadditional voices by Eve Morris, Robin, and AlexanderThe music...2022-09-0320 min
Untrue StoriesClassic sci-fi authors in their own worlds (1-minute trailer)What happens when two giants of speculative fiction double-book a getaway cottage... A one-minute trailer for Season 1 of Untrue Stories, in which George Orwell and H. G. Wells argue about tea, go time travelling, and sort of accidentally-on-purpose overthrow western democracy. Includes material from episodes one through five. Untrue Stories is a comedy-drama sci-fi serial that puts its own surreal spin on classic science fiction. Written and produced by Robin Johnson. Starring Robin Johnson as George Orwell and the voiceover; Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells; Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett; Tara Court as...2022-08-0401 min
Untrue StoriesSeason 1: Orwell, Wells, tea and time travelThe infamous rivalry between two classic speculative fiction writers leads to a thrilling and bizarre story of tea, bicycles and time travel in Untrue Stories' first season, The Adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells. Untrue Stories is a comedy-drama sci-fi serial that puts its own surreal spin on classic speculative fiction.Written and produced by Robin Johnson and starring Robin Johnson, Patrick Spragg, Tara Court, Joanna Lawrie and Liselle Nic Giollabhain. A transcript of this trailer is available here.If you enjoy the show, we'd love it if you co...2022-06-2602 min
Untrue Stories3. Battle GroundWells and Julia have changed the future, but can they be sure they've changed it for the better? No. H. G. Wells' and Julia's tinkering with the timeline has unexpected (and, of course, untrue) results. Julia, born in the future they've just changed, experiences a strange transformation as the timeline ripples... but what does it mean? And all the while, their enemies' power grows ever stronger, leading to the arrival of a character who might finally be able to give them some answers — but if so, they'll be in the next episode. Starring Robin Johnson as G...2022-06-2513 min
Untrue Stories2. The Wheels of ChanceH. G. Wells takes a wrong turn on his time-travelling bicycle, and finds that he and Orwell have both lost their bets. Continuing the adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells, Wells' inaugural time-travel journey takes him a bit further into the future than he intended: instead of one week, he travels nearly forty years. What he finds matches neither his own predictions nor Orwell's – but is surprising, horrifying, and completely untrue. Starring Robin Johnson as George Orwell and the telescreen voice, Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells, Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett, Tara Cour...2022-06-2516 min
Untrue Stories1. A Nice Cup of TeaGeorge Orwell has rented a Scottish cottage to complete his final novel. Unfortunately, he's been double-booked with the very last person he'd choose a holiday with. The first season of Untrue Stories will visit the worlds of both H. G. Wells' The Time Machine and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, exploring how the infamous rivalry between two of Britain's greatest speculative fiction writers culminated in an astonishing, hilarious, and entirely untrue story of meddling with causality and bicycles. In this episode, tea and tempers boil over as Orwell and his inadvertent roommate H. G. Wells argue ov...2022-06-2514 min
Untrue Stories1. A Nice Cup of TeaGeorge Orwell has rented a Scottish cottage to complete his final novel. Unfortunately, he's been double-booked with the very last person he'd choose a holiday with. The first season of Untrue Stories will visit the worlds of both H. G. Wells' The Time Machine and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, exploring how the infamous rivalry between two of Britain's greatest speculative fiction writers culminated in an astonishing, hilarious, and entirely untrue story of meddling with causality and bicycles. In this episode, tea and tempers boil over as Orwell and his inadvertent roommate H. G. Wells argue ov...2022-06-2514 min