BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th & 30th January 2020
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal.
One of the most influential novels of the 20th century, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published in 1949. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Winston Smith ... Christopher Eccleston
Julia ... Pippa Nixon
O'Brien ... Tim Pigott-Smith
Parsons ... Kim Wall
Charrington ... Robert Blythe
Syme ... Sam Alexander
Prostitute ... Susie Riddell
With Christine Absalom, Don Gilet, Joe Sims and Joshua Swinney
Director: Jeremy Mortimer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th January 2020
When Winston finds love, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th January 2020
Winston Smith has found love and comfort with Julia, and now they are determined to join the Brotherhood, a secret, counter-revolutionary organisation pledged to destroy The Party. But for The Party's enemies, deep in the Ministry of Love, there is the threat of Room 101.
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