Brave New World Part 2

Ladies and gentlemen, the distinguished author, Mr. Alders Huxley. 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, yet we seem determined to follow this path of self-destruction. brave new world need not be our future. The choice, after all, is always in our own hands." CBS Radio, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System, at its 217 affiliated stations present the CBS Radio Workshop. Radio's distinguished series dedicated to man's imagination,

the theatre of the mind. Tonight, part two of two half-hour programs devoted to one of the world's most shocking and famous novels, Aldous Huxley's terrifying forecast of the future, Brave New World, and we are proud to once again have Mr. Huxley as our narrator.

Original music is composed and conducted by Bernard Herman. This is old as Huxley, in the garden outside the London Hatchery and Conditioning Center it was playtime. Make it in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns or playing games or squatting silently in twos and threes

among the flowering shrubs. And strolling across the smooth turf came the director of hatcheries and conditioning, followed eagerly by a group of new students. And here we have playtime for our little thoughts. Notice the games all carefully constructed to use as many mechanical devices as possible.

In olden times, children used to play simple games using only a ball and a bat. Madness. Nothing was added to increased consumption. Then came our Ford. He taught us the principle of mass production in the assembly line many centuries ago, and changed all that.