Beware the Savage Jaw
Looking for a vehicle, looking for a ride, or just looking for the treason that you knew in ‘65 … turn down the lights, hold on tight, and tune in to David Niven and the 1949 radio adaptation of everyone’s favourite Orwellian nightmare …
Propaganda, the fabrication of “truth”, the outlawing of dissent, the distortion of reality, endless war… and thought crime, the ability to think for ones own self…
[ UK Indymedia | 1984 (Radio play) ]
presented in MP3 via IndyMedia via Sven.
worth a footnote: Anthony Burgess tells us, in the preface to 1985, how Orwell’s original title of ‘1948′ was rejected by his publisher as being just a little too close for comfort; because it’s all there in post-war Britain, MiniTruth, War is Peace, Victory Cigarettes, all of it. Tony reminds us too that it’s supposed to be a comedy, right from the clock that strikes thirteen …
source: Beware the Savage Jaw
