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The canine curse is given a comic makeover, sapping the story of its terror but bringing laughs and charming energy from the cast of three

Medford offers many options for youngsters over the summer months; from music to math, arts and sports, something for everyone

Bond, Benedetta – the gang’s all here. What are you watching this weekend?

The BBC's adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four shocked the nation when it was first broadcast on a Sunday night in 1954. The work of the Quatermass team of Nigel Kneale (writer) and Rudolph Cartier (director), it stars Peter Cushing as Winston Smith, who rebels against Big Brother by embarking on a clandestine love affair; André Morell, meanwhile, is Room 101 torturer O'Brien. This landmark play has been one of th...

AN award-winning play is set to return to Theatr Colwyn from April 29-30.

"Disgusting", "depressing", "sheer horror from start to finish", a "filthy, rotten, immoral play". Such were the comments from viewers published across a spectrum of British newspapers following the BBC transmission, on 12 December 1954, of Nigel Kneale’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The papers themselves were similarly critical. "A Tory guttersnipe’s view of Socialism" was the assessment of the socialist Daily Worker. The Daily Express opted for s...

Nineteen Eighty-Four - The Number One magazine feat. news, reviews, movie trailers, cinema, DVDs, interviews + film & movie gossip UK & worldwide.

Well here we are again to stroll down Memory Lane, but even old fossils like me can still get down with the dudes and meet young people.

Big Brother is watching you, and we are watching Big Brother. As the classic Peter Cushing TV version emerges on Blu-ray, we look back over the many dramatised versions of George Orwell’s dystopian novel.

TELEVISING THE FUTURE: 1984 AND THE IMAGINATION OF NIGEL KNEALE Hosted By Cambridge Festival. Event starts on Saturday, 9 April 2022 and happening at The Babbage Lecture Theatre (Through the Pembroke Archway), Cambridge, EN. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information.