A Brief History of Time Travel

Robert Llewellyn appears in new online sitcom.

11 October, 2013

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone with a greater interest in original web content than Robert Llewellyn. Having tested the waters with his video series Carpool and Fully Charged, he's since turned to online publishing, as well - crowdfunding the publication of his novels News From Gardenia and News From The Squares as well as publishing audiobooks like The Man In The Rubber Mask on his Audioboo channel.

Robert has also found the time, however, to work with others on their online projects - and one such venture is A Brief History of Time Travel, a new radio-style sitcom that's now available for download. The series tells the story of an assortment of odd characters - a bored accountant, a prodigious mad inventor and a temporal cop from the future - who find themselves flung throughout history thanks to a malfunctioning time machine, and is heavily inspired by the likes of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who and - yes - Red Dwarf. In a special guest role throughout the series, Robert plays the Narrator, opening and closing each episode in the style of a radio documentary series about time travel that soon gets interrupted by mysterious transmissions from the future...

The six-part series was itself crowdfunded via Kickstarter backing, and is an independent production created and written by James Hunt and Seb Patrick - who is therefore the second reddwarf.co.uk editor to have made his own online radio series, following Andrew Ellard's pilot I'm Not With Him in 2010. Perhaps there's something in the water around here...

Find out more and download the episodes at abriefhistoryoftimetravel.com.