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

It’s 2116, and Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are token rebels within an irretrievably corrupted society where promiscuity may be the norm, eugenics a good science, and morality turned ugly. There is no poverty, criminal offense or sickness – but no creativeness, art or culture either. Humans are simply just docile residents: divided into castes, brainwashed and controlled by the state 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 elevated on THE ENTIRE Works of William Shakespeare, a book which has shaped his lifetime. When he discovers that cherished ideals such as love mean nothing with this ‘brave new globe’, where romance is ridiculous, marriage shocking and parenthood shameful, John’s world is definitely shattered – and his response will display Bernard and Helmholtz what rebellion actually means…

Based on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 masterpiece, widely considered one of the biggest novels of all time, this chilling dramatisation occur a futuristic totalitarian society stars Jonathan Coy, Justin Salinger, Milton Lopes and Anton Lesser. Running period: 2 hours