Introduction

While the human exploration of space has landed a man on the Moon and journeyed to the surface of Mars, our dreams of living in cities under the sea have not come true yet. Neil and Rob talk about some projects of underwater habitats and teach you vocabulary along the way.

This week's question

One of the first adventure stories to fire the public’s imagination about the underwater world was the 1870 novel,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.But who wrote this underwater classic? Was it:

a) HG Wells?

b) Arthur Conan Doyle?

c) Jules Verne?

Listen to the program to find out the answer.

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