The Gioconda Smile | Hercules Knight’s Fatal Affair | Aldous Huxley | BBC Radio Drama

Описание: Step into a polished world of intellect, desire, and quiet cruelty, where charm disguises calculation, in The Gioconda Smile, a finely wrought BBC Radio drama adapted from Aldous Huxley’s unsettling psychological tale. 🕯️

🔍 The Story

Hercules Knight is admired for his wit, confidence, and emotional detachment — a man who treats relationships as experiments and affection as entertainment. When he enters an affair that he believes he can control, he underestimates the emotional depth and silent resolve of the woman he toys with.

What unfolds is not a crime driven by passion, but by imbalance. Manipulation replaces intimacy. Irony replaces empathy. And the famous smile — enigmatic, unreadable — becomes the mask of something far more dangerous than anger.

As the consequences tighten around him, Knight discovers that intelligence offers no protection against moral blindness, and that detachment can be as lethal as violence.

A chilling exploration of vanity, power in relationships, and the fatal cost of emotional irresponsibility.

🎭 Why Listen

• A sophisticated BBC Radio adaptation of Huxley’s psychological fiction
• Sharp, ironic dialogue exposing modern moral emptiness
• Tension built through restraint, character, and inevitability

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