Themes and Variations: The Aldous Huxley Podcast by Themes and Variations

Episodes 8

Avg. Duration 47m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (1)

Since Jun 2025

Latest Episode Mar 2026

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About This Podcast

Produced by the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich, Themes and Variations is your window into the mind and ideas of the author of Brave New World. Huxley was far ahead of his time and this podcast uses Huxley’s ideas to engage with some of the most difficult questions of our own: the environment, the state, war, work, technology and the family. Huxley had perhaps read more widely than anyone else alive at his time, which means this podcast is also an excellent introduction to the history of literature, science, philosophy and religion. Find out more at https://huxleycentre.ch/

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Recent Episodes

8. Huxley and Pain

Mar 15, 2026 50m

In this episode of Themes and Variations, we explore the topic of pain in Huxley’s work, bringing his literary and philosophical reflections together into dialogue with contemporary…

7. Huxley and the Difficulty of Being Good

Feb 22, 2026 45m

In this episode of Themes and Variations, Toby and Robin turn to Grey Eminence, Aldous Huxley’s 1941 historical study of the monk-statesman Father Joseph and the Thirty Years’ War, and use it as a…

6. When Huxley met Mansfield

Dec 14, 2025 54m

In this episode, we are delighted to interview Dr Gerri Kimber who is a world authority on Katherine Mansfield, a central figure in literary modernism. Gerri is the author of a brand new biography -…

5. Special Episode: Huxley Now!

Nov 21, 2025 49m

In this very special episode to commemorate the third annual Huxley Day, and in collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich, Toby and Emily speak to some of the teenagers involved in a recent…

4. Aldous Huxley and Violence

Nov 05, 2025 40m

In the 1930s, as authoritarian leaders tightened their grip across the world world, Aldous Huxley threw himself into the pacifist movement and the Peace Pledge Union. His 1937 book Ends and Means…

3. Aldous Huxley and Personal Relationships

Sep 30, 2025 51m

The latest episode of Themes and Variations, the Aldous Huxley podcast, explores a facet of his life many biographies gloss over: Huxley and his wife Maria lived in what we’d now call an open or…

2. Aldous Huxley and Psychology

Jul 20, 2025 42m

What if the “self” you think you know isn’t one single person, but a crowd of selves constantly shifting, colliding, and negotiating within you? Aldous Huxley believed exactly that—and it’s one of…

S1E1 1. Why read Aldous Huxley?

Jun 19, 2025 28m

Imagine a writer so multifaceted, his ideas ripple across politics, spirituality, and ecology decades after his death. That writer is Aldous Huxley. Known widely for his novel Brave New World, Huxley…