In Our Time | Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Duration: 41'50''

Synopsis

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World and its vision of a future of test tube babies, free love and round-the-clock surveillance.

Further Information
Other Archive resources
Brave New World | BBC Four | 2010

In Their Own Words: British Novelists | Aldous Huxley discusses 'Brave New World

Aldous Huxley discusses how his fear of new technology influenced the writing of 'Brave New World'.
Brave New World | BBC Radio 4 | 2003

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (2003)

Published in 1932, Aldous Huxley's dark vision of the future includes the man who battery farms humans. Read by Anton Lesser.