Ep 132 - 1984, by George Orwell (Bonus Episode)

Ep 132 - 1984, by George Orwell (Bonus Episod...

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Ep A01 - Dune, by Frank Herbert (Annotated)

We're revisiting our past this month, adding Present-Day Overdue research and context to a few old episodes that didn't have them. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Frank Herbert and the extended Dune-iverse while 2013 Andrew and Craig do their best to talk about the bo ...  عرض المزيد

Special Collections: Twilight (2008)

This isn't a belated April Fool's joke. We really did watch the movie Twilight, and we're really here to talk about it. Why are Edward and Bella SO strange? How is it that all of the side characters come off as more human than they do in the books? Why is the vampire running like ...  عرض المزيد

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1984 Explained | George Orwell
Eternalised

George Orwell depicts what a world could possibly look like under an authoritarian regime in his dystopian novel 1984, coining neologisms such as Big Brother, Thoughtcrime and Doublethink.    

Published in 1949, it remains highly influential in popular cu ...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic
The Forum

The vision of the future evoked in George Orwell’s last novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was so terrifying to its first readers that some claimed to be unable to sleep at night. When the book was adapted by the BBC for the new medium of television after Orwell’s death, millions became ...  عرض المزيد

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1984 - Hörspiel nach George Orwell

Winston Smith arbeitet im 'Ministerium für Wahrheit‘ und ist damit beschäftigt, alte Zeitungsberichte und somit das vergangene Geschichtsbild fortlaufend an die gerade herrschende Parteilinie anzupassen. Doch Winston hegt Zweifel an dem totalitären System und notiert seine verbot ...  عرض المزيد

03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Science Fiction Cities
About Buildings + Cities

George & Luke survey three dystopian cities; the glass perfection of Yvegny Zamyatin’s ‘We’, the consumer World State of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, and the shattered ruin of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. Competing visions of technological progress gone awry, and the real-world ...  عرض المزيد