September 22nd, 2019
Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949)
0:00.Intro
0:17.1984 NBC University Theater
War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Big brother is watching listening. Yep we’re talking propaganda, the fabrication of “truth”, the outlawing of dissent, the distortion of reality, endless war… and of course thought crime. No we’re not talking about the goings on on 2007, were talking about the 1949 NBC University Theater’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. This production originally aired on August 27, 1949 but is available today for your listening enjoyment is the very first adaptation of 1984 and it stars David Niven!
1984
Based on the novel by George Orwell; FULL CAST
1 MP3 – 54 Minutes 15 Seconds – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: NBC Radio – NBC University Theater
Broadcast: August 27, 1949
This is so packed with gems. I am on my second listening. Damn Orwell, so frikkin’ brilliant. Some say he was on the inside. Who cares? He brought the goods to tell us where we’re headin’.
George, I want to have a drink with you.
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Actually in the middle of listening to the audio book. Great read. I read somewhere he wrote that book based on what he thought London would look like under Communism. Just look around you man, so much of it is happening right here.
LONDON ENGLAND MY ASS…… THE MOSSAD/CIA HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THE RULES OF “BIG BROTHER” ALMOST MY ENTIRE LIFE….
UNDER THE COLOUR OF LAW, NO LESS………..
He does have a line in there about some “opposition” named Goldstein. What I thought was wonderful about this, beyond the writing itself, was the way it was presented in 1949, almost like a warning, and reminiscent of a time when reverence for freedom was still intact. I know that with ruling hierarchies we were never really free, but the ideal hung there, and for some it was a reality to keep reaching for. I’ll have to research more to see if Orwell did more to expose Jewish Power. In my mind, “1984” is a masterpiece that has more to say every time I revisit it.
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I found the following excerpt at this link:
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/11/20/ive-enough-george-orwell/
It’s from an article called, “Why I’ve had enough of George Orwell and says a lot about ole’ George:
Yet one does not have to look very far to find a man known to his friends, such as the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, as being “at heart strongly anti-Semitic,” a man whom they remembered gratuitously raising the fact or question of his contemporaries’ Jewishness and remarking at the preponderance of Jews working alongside him at the Observer. Not only are Orwell’s diaries full of accusations that the Jews controlled the media; they also record that when presented with rumors that Jews predominated amongst those sheltering in the London Tube during the Blitz, he rushed (“Must check this”) to verify the baseless accusation, only to then dwell on the fact the Jews made themselves conspicuous.
Orwell’s books, too, are heavily stained with anti-Semitism. His 1933 novelistic impressions and imaginings in Down And Out In Paris And London (where he would regularly visit a Parisian aunt in the cinquième arrondissement) contains constant and violent caricatures of Jews. “It would have been a pleasure to flatten the Jew’s nose,” he recalls. Whilst the Romanians, plongeurs and tramps Orwell meets have names and identities, the Jews are only ever Jews—whether it is “a red-haired Jew, an extraordinarily disagreeable man” he fantasies about punching in Paris, or when he returns to London and sights “a Jew, muzzle down in the plate, who was guiltily wolfing down bacon.” These are not feelings that George Orwell was shy to admit, even in writing. His 1945 musings on the illogicality of anti-Semitism as an ideology goes as far as to ask, “Why does anti-Semitism appeal to me?”
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More here, if you want to dive in:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Orwell+and+the+Jews&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
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