Brave New World Part 1

Ladies and gentlemen, the distinguished author, Mr. Alders Huxley. Brave New World is a fantastic parable about the dehumanization of human beings. In the negative utopia described in my story, man has been subordinated to his own inventions.

Science, technology, social organization, these things have ceased to serve man. They have become his masters. A quarter of a century has passed since the book was published. In that time, our world has taken so many steps in the wrong direction that if I were writing today, I would date my story not 600 years in the future, but at the most 200.

The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance. CBS Radio, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System at its 217 affiliated stations, present the premiere broadcast of the CBS Radio Workshop. Radio's distinguished series dedicated to man's imagination.

The Theatre of the Mind Tonight, part one 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. We are proud to have Mr. Huxley as narrator for these broadcasts.

Original music is composed and conducted by Bernard Herman. This is Aldous Huxley, and these are the sounds of the Brave New World, of test tube and decanter, of hissing injectors and gurgling blood substitute.

The year is AF-632, 632 years after Ford. We are inside the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. This is the 30Lires in-room, an enormous laboratory where the temperature is never allowed to fall below 98.6. And here comes the director of Hatcheries and Conditioning in-person, bringing with him a group of young students.

Tomorrow we will be settling down the series work. Today I just want to give you a general idea of things. These are the incubators, and here is the weak supply of over, kept at blood heat.