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BROOD AWAKENING

THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS

The work of one of British science fiction’s all-time greats, John Wyndham, returns to our screens soon, with a new eight-part series of . Memorably dramatised in 1960, Wyndham’s 1957 novel sees every woman of childbearing age in its titular English village falling pregnant after a mysterious day-long blackout, then giving birth to children with unearthly mental powers.

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