Episode Details

The NBC University Theater production of George Orwell's 1984, originally broadcast August 27, 1949. Announced as the first radio production of the story. A romance in the age of "double think." Big Brother is watching us all! David Niven stars. Intermission commentary on the book is provided by noted novelist James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon and Goodby Mr Chips. Featured in the cast are Donald Morrison, Ben Wright, John Ramsay Hill, Raymond Lawrence, George Pembroke, Tom Dillon, Queenie Leonard, Dan O'Herlihy, Alec Harford, Constance Cavendish, and Eric Snowdon. Narrator Ramsay Hill.