Talking About Books (discussion with Walter Allen)
Aldous Huxley
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Summary
A BBC discussion examines utopian fiction, tracing how the idea shifted from Thomas More’s idealized “nowhere” to 20th-century dystopias like Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. The speakers contrast negative, warning-oriented utopias with more playful or reformative works, including Wells, Morris, and Michael Young, and discuss Huxley’s Island as a practical positive utopia.
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