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Author: Huxley, Aldous
Title: Audio recording of an hour-long student session at U.C. Berkeley
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Date Published: 1961
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Original 7-inch reel-to-reel recording, with box.

In 1961 Robinson Jeffers scholar Marlan Beilke, then an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, and a resident at Putnam Hall was part of a group of students who invited Aldous Huxley, who was a visiting professor, to spend a casual evening with them in the form of a question and answer discussion in their dormitory. Beilke recorded the entire session in this hour long reel to reel tape recording on his old Wollensak recorder, which in recent years he had digitized in this one copy, and both are here included, along with Beilke's two-page letter of provenance that details the evening event and how it came to be.

According to Beilke, Huxley thoroughly enjoyed the evening in the casual atmosphere of a dorm setting and responded with honest candor and forthrightness to the questions asked, and reinforced the discussion with jokes of his own satirical nature. What you hear is an entirely undoctored, straightforward hour-long question and answer session concerning everything from Brave New World, Population Explosion, Drugs, China and Politics, which breaks up at the end with applause and conversation.

Both recordings seem in fine condition, although unplayed by us, as is.