Themes and Variations: The Aldous Huxley Podcast

11. Oral Histories with Professor David Dunaway

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 perso

10. Huxley and Music

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 Sie

9. Billionaires

9. Huxley and Billionaires Power, technology, artificial intelligence, and the danger of falling asleep at the wheel of civilization. In this episode of Themes and Vari

8. Huxley and Pain

In this episode of Themes and Variations, we explore the topic of pain in Huxley’s work, bringing his literary and philosophical reflections together into dialogue with c

7. Huxley and the Difficulty of Being Good

In this episode of Themes and Variations, Toby and Robin turn to Grey Eminence, Aldous Huxley’s 1941 historical study of the monk-statesman Father Joseph and the Thirty Y

6. When Huxley met Mansfield

In this episode, we are delighted to interview Dr Gerri Kimber who is a world authority on Katherine Mansfield, a central figure in literary modernism. Gerri is the autho

5. Special Episode: Huxley Now!

In this very special episode to commemorate the third annual Huxley Day, and in collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich, Toby and Emily speak to some of the te

4. Aldous Huxley and Violence

In the 1930s, as authoritarian leaders tightened their grip across the world world, Aldous Huxley threw himself into the pacifist movement and the Peace Pledge Union. His

3. Aldous Huxley and Personal Relationships

The latest episode of Themes and Variations, the Aldous Huxley podcast, explores a facet of his life many biographies gloss over: Huxley and his wife Maria lived in what

2. Aldous Huxley and Psychology

What if the “self” you think you know isn’t one single person, but a crowd of selves constantly shifting, colliding, and negotiating within you? Aldous Huxley believed ex

1. Why read Aldous Huxley?

Imagine a writer so multifaceted, his ideas ripple across politics, spirituality, and ecology decades after his death. That writer is Aldous Huxley. Known widely for his