Speaking Personally...recorded 1961 by Dennis Preston from Lansdowne Recording Studios
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"The interview took place in the London summer-two long afternoons, punctuated by tea and sherry, in Aldous's sitting-room with the view of the trees in Ennismore Gardens. The range of subjects was very wide. Aldous, as the case might be, responded to his interviewer, side-stepped or expanded. The great point of it all is that it has left us with such a characteristic record not only of Aldous's thought but of Aldous's way of expressing it; more spontaneous, more informal than his writing, more informal still than his lectures and broadcasts - there was no time limit, no audience... This record comes as near as anything to the way Aldous talked to his friends. This was his conversation."
Sybille Bedford, from Aldous Huxley, A Biography - Volume 2
- Part One
- I started writing...
- Why wouldn't you have been good in medical practice?
- How did you come to publish?
- Was your defect of eyesight a great handicap?
- Are there writers who will survive and be read?
- What is the relationship of the artist to his time?
- How serious is the impact on your mind of Freud?
- Victorian social consciousness - mummy of Jeremy Bentham
- Won't you say something about DH Lawrence?
- Part Two
- Would you say something about the process that took you to unorthodox religion?
- Surely zen is inward turning?
- What part has the supernatural in your life?
- Symbols
- Mysticism hinges upon superstition?
- The Devils of Loudon
- Why did you settle in California?
- How often have you taken mescaline yourself?