NBC's 1980s miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's “The Martian Chronicles”

In the 1980s NBC screened a miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles", about the settlement of Mars by Earthlings who have left their home planet because of nuclear war. Having made a technological leap after the Second World War, humanity ends by destroying life on both Earth and Mars. The action unfolds between the 2000s and the 2060s. Bradbury himself did not think much of the adaptation, and the three-part production enjoyed no particular success with viewers. Yet even today the picture looks very cool

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

NBC's 1980s miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's “The Martian Chronicles”

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s