Nineteen Eighty-Four: Big Brother, Surveillance, and Fear
3/17/20261 hr 29 min
Why is 1984 as relevant today as when it was published? Who is Big Brother, and why is he so powerful? What was George Orwell's intention when creating the world of 1984, and what does it tell us about politics today?
Join Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett they delve into the fascinating story behind the writing of 1984, the world it was born of, and the novel itself.
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Tabitha Syrett· Host0:43
This episode is brought to you by The Folio Society.
Dominic Sandbrook· Host0:49
Now, The Folio Society is a small independent publisher owned by its employees and based in South London, and they revisit the stories that we keep coming back to on this show, and they reshape how you experience them.
Tabitha Syrett· Host1:02
One of those is 1984, a dystopian vision that escaped the page and entered our language.
Dominic Sandbrook· Host1:08
Orwell wasn't just imagining a, a bleak future. He understood that if language narrows, then thought narrows with it, and control often begins by adjusting the record one word at a time. Folio treat books as living texts, and here the design mirrors the novel's ideological machinery. So this