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2. Bright Morning in London

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William Guest, transported from 1890, travels across London where commercial morality is now extinct. Read by David Burke.

William Guest, transported from 1890, travels across London where commercial morality is now extinct.

William Morris's utopian vision of a future England which had left industrialisation behind was first published in 1890.

William Morris (1834 -1896) was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist. His decorative designs greatly influenced the rise of the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionised Victorian taste.

Read by David Burke.

Abridged by Donald Bancroft.

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990.

15 minutes

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Tue 21 Jul 202608:30
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