David King Dunaway

I'm Emily, and today we're going to be bringing you an interview that Toby and I conducted almost a year ago now at the Aldous Huxley Symposium in Florence.

Our guest for this special two-part installment is Professor David Dunaway from the University of New Mexico, who has kindly allowed us to reproduce for you his radio documentary, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

We first talked to Professor Dunaway about his research, including linking Aldous Huxley's poor eyesight to various moments in his writing and thinking career, before then playing for you the first part of the documentary.

So we hope you enjoy.

Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of Themes and Variations, the Oldest Huxley podcast, which is a production of the Oldest Huxley Centre, Zurich.

Today, we are actually in person in Florence at the 8th International Oldest Huxley Symposium with David Dunaway, Professor of English at University of New Mexico and author and editor of 10 books, including Huxley in Hollywood and Oldest Huxley Recollected.

David's contribution to Huxley studies is enormous.

His practice as an oral historian means he has conducted many, many interviews with those who knew Huxley directly.