Radio Play: 1984
A 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell’s classic
Starring David Niven
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Format: mp3 | 54:15 | size: 12.4mb
Source: Indymedia UK
1984 free online electronic edition:
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Originally broadcasted as programme number 55 on August 27, 1949 at 9 p.m. as a one-hour production over the N.B.C. radio network as part of the N.B.C. University Theater, which adapted the world’s great novels for broadcast. –wikipedia
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I just got this radioplay on CD as a bonus with the 1956 film version. I ripped it and was going to post it on my blog. First I checked to see….
You got first Google result.
I’ll just use it as a basis for a mix instead.
Cheers!
Comment by atom — put May 23, 2009 @ 6:55 am
[…] Radio Play: George Orwell’s 1984 Vor 60 Jahren erschien George Orwell’s Roman 1984. Hier gibt es die Radio-Version von NBC aus dem Jahr 1949 als MP3-Download. […]
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Does anyone have the text of this radio play? I am in need of it. Please, can send me, to axaxdinya@hotmail.com
I will be thankfull
Comment by Rotinda — put August 28, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
Hi,
I`m an English teacher in Argentina. I could download David Niven`s performance of 1984 but I can`t get hold of the written version of the script. I would like to use it in the classroom. Do you know how or where to find the script?
Thanks for your help
Comment by griselda — put October 20, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
[…] David Dunnico blogs about his photography « DDCC.TV 1984: Misc. February 26, 2010 Now the Photism legal team assure me this is in the public domain, so if youare George Orwell’s aunty please sue them… Here’s a 1949 radio production of 1984 staring David Niven no less, as Winston Smith. It was originally broadcast on 27 August 1949 at 9 pm as a one-hour production on NBC radio. It was part of their N.B.C. University Theatre, which adapted the world’s great novels for broadcast. This was the first time 1984 was done as a radio play and there’s been speculation that Orwell would have listened to it as he lay in hospital dying of TB. It sounds a bit creaky to modern ears, but what makes it interesting is that Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn’t yet ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, by that I mean it was still a new book, it hadn’t become a classic yet, it had none of the cultural resonance it eventually aquired. But as the short discussion in it’s interval makes clear, it was already recognised as a powerful book and people saw parallels with their world (see the post below). […]
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