Profile J. G. Ballard

JG Ballard: Profile Channel: BBC4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: BBC FOUR's Sci-Fi Britannia season continues with an interview with JG Ballard. Overlooking a Ballardian landscape of a giant reservoir under a sky of aircraft on their final-approach flightpaths, writer JG Ballard talks to critic Tom Sutcliffe about his life and work. The novels Empire of the Sun and Crash have brought him mainstream success and controversy in equal mea...

Thirteen to Centaurus

"Out of the Unknown" was a science fiction series broadcast by the BBC between 1965 and 1971 and was a mixture of original screenplays and adaptations of stories by distinguished authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley and Frederick Pohl and Nigel Kneale.

Thirteen to Centaurus

Thirteen to Centaurus

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An adaptation of JG Ballard's "The Enormous Space," written and directed by Richard Curson Smith, with Antony Sher. A disturbing, darkly comic tale of a man who attempts to sever all contact with the outside world, by simply staying at home. As Gerald Ballantyne rids himself of the surface clutter in his life he is lead to a startling discovery; a mystery about the house begins to reveal itself, though possibly only in his fevered mind. The changes begin to obsess and take control of Ballantyn...

Shanghai Jim

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