Broadcast: 24th September 1948

Starring: Henry Hull

Added: Sep 24 2005

In 1727 when Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels he intended it to be nothing more than a sharp and biting commentary on the customs and politics of his time but knowing the most dangerous truths could be told safely only under the mask of humor he veiled his attacks with the most imaginative of stories. And as a result his book did not die with the customs and men, which it ridiculed instead with the passage of two centuries, and more it has become more than just a brilliant satire. It has become in fact one of the greatest of all children’s classics, a story to charm and delight the young of every generation and every century.