Jefferson 37
Jefferson 37
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It's an enjoyable radio drama.
It feels similar in tone to Huxley's ‘Brave New World'; intellectual improvement of society through slavery based upon embryonic manipulation, eugenics and class based upon notions of intelligence and linguistic ability. Jefferson 37 has failed suppression and malleability via starved linguistic development.
It also has a strange familiarity to ‘The Island' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)), which is basically a thematic re-run of ‘Logan' Run'.
I'm hoping the radio play existed as a script before the screenplay, just being produced after the the film.
I realised that it's actually the second time that I've heard it. The first must have been during the first broadcast in 2006 (archive.org) or 2008 (BBC), not sure which correct.