Videos

BBC’s 1954 TV adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (video)

The BBC produced a live TV adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for their “Sunday-Night Theatre” programme on 12 December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and “horrific” content. Some MPs though were supportive and the Duke of...
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George Orwell’s son Richard Blair in conversation with D. J. Taylor (video)

Richard Blair, George Orwell’s adopted son, speaks in public for the first time about his father. Richard is in conversation with novelist and critic D. J. Taylor, Chair of the Orwell Trust and author of the Whitbread Biography Award-winning Orwell: The Life. Video from the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009:
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