Yesterday BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives series featured none other than Philip K. Dick. The format of the series is that a celebrity is invited in to talk about someone they greatly admire. In this program Welsh actor Michael Sheen (Underworld, Twilight, Tron: Legacy, not to mention The Damned United, which doubtless means nothing to non-British readers) chose the inimitable PKD. British academic, Roger Luckhurst, was on hand to provide expert commentary. It is a pretty good program, and you should be able to listen to it here.

While you are at it, you may also be interested in the Stephen Baxter short story, “Voyage”, and the Ray Bradbury story, “Tomorrow’s Child”, which were both broadcast yesterday.