Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Melvyn Bragg and guests David Bradshaw, Daniel Pick and Michele Barrett discuss Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1932 novel, Brave New World.

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• David Bradshaw 2 episodes
  
• Daniel Pick No other episodes
  
• Michele Barrett 2 episodes
  

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Hello (First sentence from this episode)

Hello, in Shakespeare's play The Tempest, the character Miranda declares when confronted by a group of young men, of whom on her isolated island she has never seen the like, oh wonder how many godly creatures are there here, how beauteous mankind is, oh brave new world that has such people in it.