Editing The Time Machine (section)

=== Radio and audio ===
====''Escape'' radio broadcasts====
The CBS radio anthology ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]'' adapted ''The Time Machine'' twice, in 1948 starring [[Jeff Corey]], and again in 1950 starring [[Lawrence Dobkin]] as the traveller. A script adapted by Irving Ravetch was used in both episodes. The Time Traveller was named Dudley and was accompanied by his skeptical friend Fowler as they travelled to the year 100,080.

====1994 Alien Voices audio drama====
In 1994, an audio drama was released on cassette and CD by Alien Voices, starring [[Leonard Nimoy]] as the Time Traveller (named '''John''' in this adaptation) and [[John de Lancie]] as David Filby. John de Lancie's children, Owen de Lancie and [[Keegan de Lancie]], played the parts of the Eloi. The drama is approximately two hours long and is more faithful to the story than several of the film adaptations. Some changes are made to reflect modern language and knowledge of science.

==== 7th Voyage ====
In 2000, Alan Young read ''The Time Machine'' for 7th Voyage Productions, Inc., in 2016 to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of H.G. Wells's novella.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lucas |first1=Clyde |title=The Time Machine Alan Young |website=[[IMDb]] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3630388/ |date=28 October 2015 |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=9 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909000611/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3630388/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====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.

====Big Finish====
On 5 September 2017, [[Big Finish Productions]] released an adaptation of ''The Time Machine''. This adaptation was written by [[Marc Platt (writer)|Marc Platt]] and starred [[Ben Miles]] as the Time Traveller.

Platt explained in an interview that adapting ''The Time Machine'' to audio was not much different from writing ''Doctor Who'', and that he could see where some of the roots of early ''Doctor Who'' came from.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/out-now-hg-wells-the-time-machine |title=Out Now: H.G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'' |access-date=6 September 2017 |archive-date=6 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906225019/https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/out-now-hg-wells-the-time-machine |url-status=live }}</ref>