Relic Radio

This is Relic Radio

This is Relic Radio, sci-fi, Mr. Aldous Huxley.

Brave New World is a fantastic parable about the dehumanization of human beings.

In the negative utopia described in my story, man has been subordinated to his own inventions.

Science, technology, social organization, these things have ceased to serve

man. They have become his masters. A quarter of a century has passed since the book was

published. In that time, our world has taken so many steps in the wrong direction that if I were writing

today, I would date my story not 600 years in the future, but at the most 200. The price of liberty

and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance.

CBS Radio, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System and its 217 affiliated stations,

present the premier broadcast of the CBS Radio Workshop.

Radio's distinguished series dedicated to man's imagination.

The Theater of the Mind.

Tonight, part one of two half-hour programs devoted to one of the world's most shocking and famous novels.

Aldous Huxley's terrifying forecast of the future, Brave New World.

We are proud to have Mr. Huxley as narrator for these broadcasts.

Original music is composed and conducted by Bernard Herman. This is Aldous Huxley, and these are the sounds of the brave new world,

of test tube and decanter, of hissing injectors and gurgling blood substitute. The year is AF 632, 632 years after Ford. We are inside the London hatchery and

conditioning centre, and this is the fertilising room,

an enormous laboratory

where the temperature is never allowed to fall

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