…Britain, Aldous Huxley recorded for the BBC a number of conversations talking on different occasions with both Walter Allen and John Morgan. The programme that follows is a selection from the various recordings he made, introduced by Walter Allen. For me,…

…I met Huxley in the studios two months ago, I was, in a sense, meeting my past. And so, I suspect, was John Morgan. The questions we put were naturally pretty similar. If anything, Morgan's had a sociological bias, mine a literary one. I'd just been…

…And there are a number of other worlds, too, which we also have to make the best of in one way or another. John Morgan raised the question of Huxley's notions on the relation between art and life. Clearly, from your work, you've derived a very rich…

…to be able to find a new historical episode which I felt to have the same parable-like quality as these other two. John Morgan wondered about the influence of D.H. Lawrence on Huxley, and that led, as you'll hear, to a general discussion of changed…

…liberate thinking about these, after all, extremely important problems. Inevitably, Huxley's experiments with drugs, particularly mescaline, came up. John Morgan put the question in these terms. How much is your interest in drugs, say, like mescaline, an attempt…

…out what is going to happen and then to have the desire to do it. Mr. Huxley, thank you very much indeed. Walter Allen has been introducing recordings of the conversations he and John Morgan had with Aldous Huxley. The programme was presented by the BBC.