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1984

1984

Broadcast: August 27, 1949
Added: Sep 23 2021

Herewith a disturbing broadcast, a dramatization adapted for radio by Milton Wayne, George Orwell’s 1984. In his 1949 widely discussed novel Orwell has projected the totalitarian techniques abroad in the world to their terrible extreme. The plight of the individual in this world are left to you to assess for yourself as you listen to the story of Mr. Winston Smith played by the internationally known British actor David Niven. Big Brother's Watching You and the future is unimaginable...

At intermission, eighteen minutes in, you will hear a commentary on George Orwell's writing by another distinguished author James Hilton.