News from Nowhere by William Morris (Omnibus)

1890: William Guest dreams it’s the early 2000s and England has changed…

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

Omnibus of five episodes 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 revolutionised Victorian taste.

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990.