The Kraken Wakes (1998) by John Wyndham, starring Jonathan Cake

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Another of Wyndham's darkly inflected sci-fi tales, this one slightly echoes Capek's War With The Newts as much as Wells's War of the Worlds, while still evoking Wyndham's very particular British ethos. It's been adapted for BBC radio many times - apt, since the lead character is a British radio journalist - and even since this 1998 version there have been two more significant BBC versions...

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