... giving us the principal facts. The narration by Richard Burton, is a credit to the music. His voice is calm, steady and direct. He has a deep tone, which generates a commanding manner. He makes you feel that you want to listen to him, rather than feeling that you have to listen to him. Yet there is something evil about his voice; but as we know from reading the novel, he is only the storyteller, but his voice undoubtedly gives us the sense that something bad is about to happen. Wells then goes on to provide facts about why it hadn't even crossed people's minds that Martians may be about to pay them a visit, or even that creatures from outer space existed at all, and one of the lines to show this is "Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the ...

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