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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.
Transported from 1890, William Guest travels across London where commercial morality is now extinct.
First published in 1890, William Morris's utopian vision of a future England which had left industrialisation behind.
Read by David Burke.
Abridged by Donald Bancroft.
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.
Producer: Marilyn Imrie
First broadcast on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 in March 1990.
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