The Burning of the Grass (1970) | A Forgotten BBC Science Fiction Masterpiece
Long before Star Trek asked humanity to “seek out new life and new civilizations,” the BBC was quietly producing thoughtful science fiction that challenged our deepest assumptions about progress.
In The Burning of the Grass, first broadcast on BBC Radio’s Saturday Night Theatre in 1970, an Earth survey ship arrives on a distant world expecting to discover a primitive agricultural society ready to embrace technology and industry.
Instead, the explorers encounter something they never imagined.
The people of Centauri IV live peacefully among abandoned modern cities. They possess little…
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