Themes and Variations: The Aldous Huxley Podcast

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11. Oral Histories with Professor David Dunaway

September 28, 2026

In this episode of Themes and Variations, we begin a special two-part installment recorded at the Aldous Huxley Symposium in Florence.Emily and Toby are joined in person by Professor David King Dunaway, oral historian, biographer, broadcaster, and one of the major figures in the study of Aldous Huxley’s American years. Professor Dunaway is also the author of Huxley in Hollywood and Aldous Huxley Recollected. In a departure from the usual format, Professor Dunaway has kindly allowed us to repr...

10. Huxley and Music

July 30, 2026

In this episode of Themes and Variations, we turn to one of the most fascinating and underexplored aspects of Aldous Huxley’s writing: music.Toby is joined by Heike Sieger, author of Music as Satire in Aldous Huxley’s Utopian Works, to discuss how music functions in Huxley’s positive and negative utopias: Brave New World, Ape and Essence, and Island. Heike’s work asks us to listen more closely to Huxley’s fiction: to the composers he names, the musical styles he invokes, the songs he invents,...

9. Billionaires

June 28, 2026

9. Huxley and BillionairesPower, technology, artificial intelligence, and the danger of falling asleep at the wheel of civilization.In this episode of Themes and Variations, we return to Aldous Huxley’s novels, as well as Ends and Means, to ask a question that feels urgently contemporary: what would Huxley have made of today’s billionaires?Toby is joined once again by Robin Hull, curator of the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich and author of Aldous Huxley for Beginners, for a wide-ranging conversat...

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