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First broadcast in 1980, Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World is a coll­ection of 13 25-minute episodes, all of which are, to quote the opening narration, “Mysteries from the files of Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the comm­unications satellite. Now living in retreat in Sri Lanka after a lifetime of science, space and writing, he ponders the riddles of this and other worlds”. And ponder them he does.


Each episode is introduced by Clarke himself, usually walking along a Sri Lankan beach (and looking slightly more than the 63 years old he was at the time).