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1984 | Ch. 20 – Freedom Is Slavery (And Other Lies)
Episode 41
In this episode of Banned Camp, the comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to understand why they were censored, Jennifer and Dan dig into…
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 19.3 - You Do Not Exist (But Big Brother Does)
Episode 40
In Chapter 19.3 of 1984, things go from bad to flesh-zombie worse. O’Brien continues Winston’s psychological beatdown with Orwell’s signature brand o…
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 19.2 - The Price of Truth Is Pain
Episode 39
Winston says four. The Party says five. The pain dial says... crank it to 90.
This chapter is Orwell at his most brutal, and Dan and Jennifer are not…
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 19.1 – Confess Everything, Even the Stuff You Didn’t Do
Episode 38
Winston’s torture officially begins, and it’s brutal. Dan and Jennifer read through Orwell’s stomach-churning description of physical beatings, psych…
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 18.2 – Loudly, Abundantly, and Very Strongly
Episode 37
In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan finish Chapter 18 of 1984, and it’s a brutal one. Winston meets a series of broken people—including …
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 18.1 - Welcome to the Place with No Darkness
Episode 36
Winston’s in the Ministry of Love now—where the lights never turn off, the telescreens scream at your pockets, and your cellmate might be a footnote …
1 year, 3 months ago
1984 | Ch. 17.7 - No One Escapes the Iron Voice
Episode 35
Winston and Julia thought they had a secret — a room, a routine, a bit of freedom. But the telescreen was listening the whole time. In this brutal en…
1 year, 4 months ago
1984 | Ch. 17.6 - The Party Makes You Forget You Forgot
Episode 34
In this episode of Banned Camp, Jennifer and Dan read the next section of Goldstein’s manifesto—and it gets bleak. Orwell explains how the Party rewr…
1 year, 4 months ago
1984 | Ch. 17.5 - The Dumb Masses vs. the Baby Elephants
Episode 33
Jennifer and Dan return to Orwell’s nightmare to decode the Party’s obsession with eternal control. This chapter dives into the rigid social hierarch…
1 year, 4 months ago
They Fired the Librarian. We Called a Children’s Book Legend.
Episode 32
Dr. Carla Hayden—America’s first Black woman Librarian of Congress—was just fired by Trump’s goons.
So we called Jon Scieszka.
Yes, that Jon Scieszka…
1 year, 4 months ago