In his 1864 novel A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a group of scientists and explorers descend into the crater of an Icelandic volcano and discover a prehistoric underworld complete with ...

The story concerns an expedition, led by James Mason, who plays a dedicated scientist, to the center of the earth. Among those who descend to the depths with Mason are Pat Boone, one of his ...

As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...