Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Christopher Eccleston (Narrator), Pippa Nixon (Narrator), and Tim Pigott-Smith (Narrator)

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101... Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. Christopher Eccleston, Tim Pigott-Smith and Pippa Nixon star in this new drama, part of BBC Radio 4's 'The Real George Orwell' season - a Radio 4 journey that explores the disjuncture between the man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell.

• ISBN10: 1471331431
• ISBN13: 9781471331435
• Publish Date: 25 February 2013 (first published 1 July 1905)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 16 December 2024
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
• Imprint: BBC Physical Audio
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Audiobook (CD)
• Duration: 1 hours and 55 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

As literary science fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel of the social science fiction sub-genre, the terms and concepts of Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Memory hole et cetera, became contemporary vernacular, including the adjective Orwellian, denoting George Orwell’s writings and totalitarianism as exposited in Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell has mastered the art of writing, and dystopian societies so much so that even now days there is a sense of science fiction and relevants to our society.