Sir Richard Eyre Five of the Best Books

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Sir Richard Eyre's distinguished career as a director encompasses both theatre and film. He ran the National Theatre in London for ten years and also created acclaimed productions of Guys and Dolls and Mary Poppins. For the big screen he's directed Notes on a Scandal and Iris. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his five favourite books, and how they shaped his life. And Dr Sarah Dillon continues her series of close reading by turning her attention to Aldous Huxley and the opening of his novel Brave New World. Published in 1932, the novel is set in a dystopian future where human beings are reproduced artificially, the opiate of the people is the drug soma and the population is strictly controlled and divided into castes.