Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?

Discussants:
- David Bradshaw, Reader and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford
- Daniel Pick, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
- Michèle Barrett, Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London


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Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?

Discussants:
- David Bradshaw, Reader and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford
- Daniel Pick, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
- Michèle Barrett, Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London


(MP3)

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20090409-1104a.mp3