Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), rocket scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, one of the pioneers of modern rocketry and astronautics, also named Jules Verne as the person who inspired ...

Sci-fi comedy classic. An American showman gets involved in an ambitious plot to launch a rocket to the moon with the aid of a powerful explosive.

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 ...