Nineteen Ninety-Four

Nineteen Ninety-Four is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series and a book written by William Osborne and Richard Turner (producer). The six-part radio series was broadcast in 1985, and the book published in 1986. The title is a referenced to the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

A sequel series of six episodes entitled Nineteen Ninety-Eight broadcast in 1987 continued the plot line. It was published as a book in 1988.

BBC Radio 4 Extra started to rebroadcast Nineteen Ninety-Four on 17 August 2011.

Episodes

• Work is Freedom ^[1]
• Freedom Is Choice ^[2]
• Choice is Progress ^[3]
• Progress is Power ^[4]
• Power is Happiness ^[5]
• Happiness is Work ^[6]

Cast

Nineteen Ninety-Four

• Robert Lindsay starred as Edward Wilson
• Stephen Fry
• Hugh Laurie
• Emma Thompson
• Paul Shearer
• Siobhan Redmond
• David Goodland
• Pam Ferris
• Richard Turner

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

• David Threlfall as Edward Wilson
• Mike Myers
• Stephen Fry
• Pam Ferris
• Jenny Luckraft
• Steve Steen
• Rebecca Stevens
• Richard Turner

References

1. ^ Work is Freedom at BBC Programmes
2. ^ Freedom Is Choice at BBC Programmes
3. ^ Choice is Progress at BBC Programmes
4. ^ Progress is Power at BBC Programmes
5. ^ Power is Happiness at BBC Programmes
6. ^ Happiness is Work at BBC Programmes

External links

• "De Big Brother au temps des Small Brothers". Cycnos. http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/document.html?id=1439. Retrieved 2011-08-31.  (French) (Translate: Google, Babelfish)
• Turner, Richard; Osborne, William (May 1988). 1998. Sphere Books. ISBN 0722165811. 

• Nineteen Ninety-Four at BBC Programmes