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Aldous Huxley, Seminal English Novelist, Philosopher And Mystic, In Two Works: The Complete 1980 NBC TV Adaptation Of Aldous Huxley’s Prophetic Dystopian Novel BRAVE NEW WORLD That Was Only Shown In This Complete Unexpurgated 3 Hour Version Once On BBC Television (Color, 3 Hours 1 Minute) And The NBC Radio Play Adaptation Of His 1939 Philosophical Science Fiction Novel AFTER MANY A SUMMER, His Expose Of The Narcissism, Superficiality And Youth Obsession Of American Culture, In The Landmark Peabody Award Winning Literary Radio Drama Series "NBC University Theater Of The Air! For Their College-By-Radio Course In American And British Fiction (Sunday, December 12, 1948, 60 Minutes) -- All Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As A 2 Volume Video Download MP4 Set Or A 2 Disc Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD Set! (4 Hours Total.) #AldousHuxley #BraveNewWorld #AfterManyASummer #AfterManyASummerDiesTheSwan #Dystopia #DystopianFiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SocialScienceFiction #SocialSciFi #ScienceFantasy #Novels #Literature #EnglishLiterature #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD

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Director:
Burt Brinckerhoff

Writers:
Aldous Huxley (Novel), Doran William Cannon (Adaptation), Robert E. Thompson

Cast:
Julie Cobb ... Linda Lysenko
Bud Cort ... Bernard Marx
Keir Dullea ... Thomas Grambell
Ron O'Neal ... Mustapha Mond
Marcia Strassman ... Lenina Disney
Kristoffer Tabori ... John Savage
Dick Anthony Williams ... Helmholz Watson
Jonelle Allen ... Fanny Crowne
Jeannetta Arnette ... Dwightina
Casey Biggs ... Beta lighthouse guard
Reb Brown ... Henry
Tara Buckman ... Alpha Teacher
Nigel Bullard ... Plant Manager
Shane Butterworth
Lee Chamberlin ... Head Nanny Nurse
Sam Chew Jr. ... Chief Dispenser
Beatrice Colen ... Gamma Female
Patrick Cronin ... Gamma Male
Valerie Curtin ... Chief Warden Stelina Shell
Jeff Doucette ... Cosmetization Technician
Peter Elbling ... Darwin Bonaparte
Marneen Fields ... Futuristic Factory Worker
Leslie Hoffman ... Soma Taker
Aron Kincaid ... J. Edgar Millhouse
Susan Krebs ... Anita Shapely
Carole Mallory ... Miss Trotsky
Tricia O'Neil ... Maoina Krupps
Victoria Racimo ... Beta Teacher
Dee Dee Rescher ... Neighbor Woman
Murray Salem ... Chief Engineer
Delia Salvi ... High Priestess
Delos V. Smith Jr.


Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist, John, "The Savage". Henry Ford is the messianic figure of this World State. "Our Ford" is used in place of "Our Lord", as a credit to popularising the use of the assembly line. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final novel, Island (1962), the utopian counterpart. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (published 1949). In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time", and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC.

After Many A Summer (1939) is a philosophical novel by Aldous Huxley that tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire who fears his impending death. It was published in the United States as After Many A Summer Dies The Swan. Written soon after Huxley left England and settled in California, the novel is Huxley's examination of American culture, particularly what he saw as its narcissism, superficiality, and obsession with youth. This satire also raises philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in Huxley's final novel Island. The novel's title is taken from Tennyson's poem Tithonus, about a figure in Greek mythology to whom Aurora gave eternal life but not eternal youth. The book was awarded the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Aldous Huxley, English novelist, philosopher and mystic (July 26, 1894 , November 22, 1963) was born Aldous Leonard Huxley in Godalming, Surrey, England, the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited The Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. Aldous Huxley wrote nearly fifty books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism and universalism, addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945), which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism, and The Doors Of Perception (1954), which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively. Aldous Huxley died of advanced laryngeal cancer at aged 69 at 5:20 p.m. Los Angeles time; on his deathbed, unable to speak, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 g, intramuscular." According to her account of his death in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later. He is buried at Compton Village Cemetery in Compton, Guildford Borough, Surrey, England.

NBC University Theater, also known as NBC University Theater of the Air, NBC Theater of the Air or NBC Theater, was a brand the National Broadcasting Co. applied to a category of radio programming. Although not actually a university, some colleges and universities collaborated in some of the programming, either contributing to its content or including the programming in their curriculum. NBC University Theater's most well-known radio series was The World's Great Novels. NBC used the name "University Theater" or similar from about 1923–1947. Most NBC University Theater programming aired on NBC's Red Network, but the Blue Network (later to become ABC) also participated. The Armed Forces Radio Network also distributed some of the programs. About 1948, NBC replaced this category with NBC Presents. The World's Great Novels was one of the radio series included in NBC University Theater. The series was produced by Margaret Cuthbert and directed by Homer Heck. It presented adaptations of classic novels, often described as "Anglo-American literature." The show was born The World's Great Novels on WMAQ, Chicago, and NBC from 1944 to 1948, and adopted its better known name when it relocated to Hollywood in July 1948.It initially aired Saturdays at 7:00 pm CST during the first 1944-45 season and then moved to Fridays at 11:30 pm. Music for the series was composed by Emil Soderstrom (ne Emil Otto Edvard Soderstrom; 1901-1972) and conducted by Bernard "Whitey" Berquist (ne Bernard H. Berquist; 1903-1962). The Chicago-based programs were a production of The NBC University of the Air. Through agreements with the University of Louisville, the University of Tulsa, Kansas State Teachers College, and Washington State College, listeners could receive college credit through accredited, radio-assisted literature correspondence courses. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents. The series began October 28, 1944, with Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, followed by Voltaire's Candide and Jane Austen's Emma. Over the next four years, it aired adaptations of such novels as Kidnapped, The Last of the Mohicans, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Moby-Dick, A Tale of Two Cities and War and Peace. Since this was a half-hour program, many of the novels were serialized in multi-part adaptations of two to six 30-minute episodes. The group of Chicago actors heard on the series included Larry Alexander, Ernie Andrews, Everett Clarke, Johnny Coons, Maurice Copeland, Harry Elders, Sidney Ellstrom, Charles Flynn, Donald Gallagher, Hilda Graham, Ken Griffin, Jonathan Hole, Geraldine Kay, Eloise Kummer, Jack Lester, Ken Nordine, Hope Summers and Lee Young. Some episodes were narrated by Nordine. The announcers were Charles Chan, John Conrad and Dave Garroway. Some shows in the series had guest speakers. Amy Loveman, an editor with The Saturday Review of Literature, was the guest commentator with the 1944 adaptation of Emma. The novelist Ida Alexa Ross Wylie was the guest commenting on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. The adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's Free (July 9, 1948) featured a brief talk by the Dean of the University of Chicago. On July 23, 1948, the final program featured readings from different works by Thomas Wolfe. The series was retooled by Cuthbert and renamed NBC University Theater (aka NBC University Theater of the Air, NBC Theater of the Air and NBC Theater) and moved from Chicago to Hollywood. That series was heard from July 30, 1948, to February 14, 1951. In the new format, the program also included adaptations of short stories and plays in addition to novels and occasionally featured commentary on the original work by distinguished writers and critics. The new series won a Peabody Award in 1948 and was considered one of the most distinguished radio programs of its day; all the episodes from this period still survive. The NBC University of the Air also produced a summer replacement series, American Novels, which was broadcast when The World's Great Novels was off during the summers of 1947 and 1948. Some sources give the title of the 1944-48 series as The World's Greatest Novels, but there is no evidence this title was ever used.