2. Bright Morning in London

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

First published in 1890, this is the author's utopian vision of a future England which had left Industrialisation behind.

Abridged by Donald Bancroft.

Read by David Burke.

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 revolutionized Victorian taste.

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990.