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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Summer Repeat)
Manage episode 435511265 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth as a rewriter of history: 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' The influence of Orwell's novel is immeasurable, highlighting threats to personal freedom with concepts he named such as doublespeak, thoughtcrime, Room 101, Big Brother, memory hole and thought police.
With
David Dwan Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Oxford
Lisa Mullen Teaching Associate in Modern Contemporary Literature at the University of Cambridge
And
John Bowen Professor of English Literature at the University of York
Producer: Simon Tillotson
In Our Time is a BBC Sounds Audio Production
1118 episodios
Manage episode 435511265 series 1301213
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth as a rewriter of history: 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' The influence of Orwell's novel is immeasurable, highlighting threats to personal freedom with concepts he named such as doublespeak, thoughtcrime, Room 101, Big Brother, memory hole and thought police.
With
David Dwan Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Oxford
Lisa Mullen Teaching Associate in Modern Contemporary Literature at the University of Cambridge
And
John Bowen Professor of English Literature at the University of York
Producer: Simon Tillotson
In Our Time is a BBC Sounds Audio Production
1118 episodios
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