"Brave New World" narrated by Aldous Huxley, 1956

January 27, 1956 Premier episode in this dramatic series is the classic "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

1/27/1956
First episode. A classic tale of the future, narrated by author. Aldus Huxley introduces and narrates the classic novel he wrote 25 years earlier. Based in AF 632, six-hundred and 32 years after Ford. In the words of Mr. Huxley himself “Brave New World is a study of the future as it may be unless we are extremely careful. It depicts a society in which man has replaced nature by science, morality by drugs, individuality by total conformity. It is a hideous prospect and yet we seem determined to follow this path of self-destruction. The brave new world need not be our future the choice after all is always in our own hands”. The book is certainly a gripping read and this dramatization is equally enthralling. This is the first part of two half-hour parts.

2/03/1956 Part Two & the conclusion of the famous story of the future, narrated by the author, Aldus Huxley.

The CBS Radio Workshop was an "experimental dramatic radio anthology series" that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it premiered with a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's now classic 1932 novel, Brave New World. Huxley himself introduced and narrated the program.

Huxley was also an instructor of Eric Blair, better known by his pen name as George Orwell, the author of "1984" which was written in 1948, Orwell switched the last two numbers around for the title.