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Towards Tomorrow: A Utopia

on BBC One London

Your future is being created now - for better or for worse?

If I could but see a day of it...

A day in the year 2000-plus was the time William Morris had in mind when he voiced our common yearning to glimpse the future in his Utopian novel News from Nowhere. Now, Utopia, the ultimate in human folly or human hope, is subject to scrutiny by high-powered government forecasting agencies - think tanks - and by behavioural psychiatrists Their predictions come closer to Orwell's 1984 than William Morris's dream world and seem to support the hippie philosophy that a dropping-out of our technologically orientated society is the only way to achieve Utopia.

Prophecies, pleasant and unpleasant, are contributed by: Dr. J. Bronowski, Herman Kahn and Tony Wiener, Lewis Mumford, Professor B. F. Skinner, Viscount Weymouth and the members of a unique community of drop-outs in the Colorado Mountains.
William Morris is played by Frank Littlewood.
Commentary spoken by John Stockbridge.

Contributors

Speaker:
Dr. J. Bronowski
Speaker:
Herman Kahn
Speaker:
Tony Wiener
Speaker:
Lewis Mumford
Speaker:
Professor B. F. Skinner
Speaker:
Viscount Weymouth
Narrator:
John Stockbridge
Series Editor:
Max Morgan-Witts
Producer/Director:
Ramsay Short
William Morris:
Frank Littlewood

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