A Profile of Aldous Huxley
Dr Valentine Cunningham , Senior Tutor in English Literature at Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, considers some of the contradictions in the satirist of the brittle 20s turned prophetic critic of 20th-century progress. He spanned the period from the despair of the First
World War to the mystic salvationism of the mid-century - a man whose interests covered literature, science, religion and politics. With Sybille Bedford, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead,
Sir Stephen Spender , Gavin Ewart ,
Julian Symons , Professor
Lewis Wolpert and archive recordings of Huxley, his brother Julian and contemporaries.
Producer Judith Bumpus