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It this era of data-and-slick-media-deluge, I have had to learn to consume older sci-fi in a new way. Last year's special effects quickly seem awkward and unbelievable. Ground-breaking works (take early film noir for example) can suffer from dilution - imitators flock in, and slicker copies are produced with newer techniques. Still brings a shudder of queasy recognition If you are thinking about reading the book, spend 95 cents and one hour listening to this as a preview. This is a good production and I find, for me, dramatized productions help to make certain writings more understandable. They are happily married and I am not making a judgement call, but mentioning the changes in society since Huxley wrote this book and more toward his predictions than away. Both my adult children, had multiple partners and lived with their girlfriends before marriage.
WE BELONG TO EACH OTHER When this was written, most couples were virgins when they got married. On face book a few weeks ago, some women were complaining about disapproving looks they get when breast feeding in public. In the book there is talk about it being disgusting to breast feed a child. The country is thinking about passing a law to make it more difficult for foreigners to hire women for that purpose. It seems in India, many women make extra money, being surrogate birth mothers. The story I was listening too was about India. HAPPINESS IS A HARD MASTER Just this morning on my way to work, I was listening to the BBC. It was intended as a "warning against the destruction of moral standards, family life and the soul of man."
The adaptation was announced by the actor William Conrad - who subsequently found fame on television as the corpulent detective Cannon: at the end of the first episode he informed listeners in no uncertain terms about the moral purpose of Froug's adaptation.
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Despite the Director's jovial protestations that this was the best of all possible worlds (shades of Voltaire's Candide), the doom-laden consequences of what had happened were suggested by Bernard Herrman's specially composed score, full of doom-laden chords, and metronome-like chimes played on the tubular bells. Everyone belonged to everyone else, and no one needed to think any more.
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The Brave New World was a topsy-turvy environment, which despised institutions such as marriage and parenthood (any mention of such terms was greeted with scornful laughter), and advocated free love without passion. What was most evident about this two-part adaptation, now available on podcast, was the vocal contrasts: between Huxley the narrator, telling the story in a cut-glass marked RP accent interspersed with occasional Americanisms ("diaper" instead of "nappy," for instance) the Controller, who spoke throughout in jovial tones, appropriate for the Brave New World of perpetual happiness and the Savage, the representative of feeling, emotional humanity - now consigned to a reserve in darkest Mexico - whose tones became increasingly desperate as he understood how mechanized the universe had become. There was also a cast of some ten actors. The premiere production was Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score that evidently took a long time to construct, and comprised a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, an air hose, a cow's moo, an oscillator, and three kinds of wine glasses clicking together.
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The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental series of productions, subtitled "radio's distinguished series to man's imagination" that ran between 27 January 1956 and 22 September 1957.