Editing The Time Machine (section)

====2009 BBC Radio 3 broadcast====
[[Robert Glenister]] starred as the Time Traveller, with [[William Gaunt]] as [[H. G. Wells]] in a new 100-minute radio dramatisation by Philip Osment, directed by [[Jeremy Mortimer]] as part of a BBC Radio Science Fiction season. This was the first adaptation of the novella for British radio. It was first broadcast on 22 February 2009 on [[BBC Radio 3]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hr4hq |department=BBC Radio 3 – Drama on 3 |title=The Time Machine |publisher=bbc.co.uk |date=2009-08-30 |access-date=2015-10-31 |archive-date=26 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226154956/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hr4hq |url-status=live }}</ref> and later published as a 2-CD BBC audio book.

The other cast members were:
*Donnla Hughes as Martha
*Gunnar Cauthery as Young H. G. Wells
*[[Stephen Critchlow]] as Filby, friend of the young Wells
*Chris Pavlo as Bennett, friend of the young Wells
*Manjeet Mann as Mrs. Watchett, the Traveller's housemaid
*Jill Crado as Weena, one of the Eloi and the Traveller's partner
*[[Robert Lonsdale]], Inam Mirza, and [[Dan Starkey (actor)|Dan Starkey]] as other characters

The adaptation retained the nameless status of the Time Traveller and set it as a true story told to the young Wells by the time traveller, which Wells then re-tells as an older man to the US journalist, Martha, whilst firewatching on the roof of [[Broadcasting House]] during [[the Blitz]]. It also retained the deleted ending from the novella as a recorded message sent back to Wells from the future by the traveller using a prototype of his machine, with the traveller escaping the anthropoid creatures to 30&nbsp;million&nbsp;AD at the end of the universe before disappearing or dying there.