Brave New World: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook (Free)

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian novel

It’s 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels within an irretrievably corrupted culture where promiscuity may be the norm, eugenics a good science, and morality turned upside down. There is no poverty, crime or sickness – but no creativity, art or culture either. Human beings are simply just docile people: divided into castes, brainwashed and managed by the condition and reliant on the about Daring New World: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation medication soma for superficial gratification.

Into this sterile society comes an outsider, John – a man created into squalor and suffering, but raised on THE ENTIRE Works of William Shakespeare, a book which includes shaped his life time. When he discovers that cherished ideals such as for example love mean nothing in this ‘brave new globe’, where romance is ridiculous, marriage shocking and parenthood shameful, John’s world can be shattered – and his response will display Bernard and Helmholtz what rebellion really means…

Based on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 masterpiece, widely regarded one of the biggest novels ever, this chilling dramatisation set in a futuristic totalitarian society stars Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, Milton Lopes and Anton Lesser. Operating time: 2 hours