Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, "I was hanged and survived #soggyrope", or, "#nosyphilisnochocolate". Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a day's toil for the young Candide. And this is in the best of all possible worlds!
There's no question that CANDIDE, written in 1759, is a classic and Voltaire's masterpiece, but most people today probably don't know it. This audio version is an easy-to-swallow rendition in which narrator Martyn Swain seems to be having quite a good time telling the story. He mostly uses accents to portray the many characters, and his range of accents is impressive, including those of various Br
