Anyone who’s had the privilege of reading Jules Verne’s ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ or ‘The Mysterious Island’ as a child will remember that the hero of these fascinating books – the mysterious ...

French author Jules Verne gave us some astoundingly accurate predictions of future technological advances. His stories ...

As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...