The day of the triffids

Bill Masen works with triffids - an animalistic plant with poisonous venom, a wicked stinger and the ability to move around on three 'legs'.

Hospitalised when he succumb to triffid venom in a lab accident, Masen misses seeing a world-changing night - a quirk of fate may just save his life...Strongly influenced by H.G.

Wells' The War of the Worlds, Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel displays some similarities to Wells' seminal sci-fi work.

Yet, it remains an enduring classic in its own right, bursting with imagination and startling inventiveness.Read by Alex Jennings - a renowned British stage, television and radio actor.