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The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture

Matthew Sweet explores what fed into Orwell's future vision and how our own is shaping up.

Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, Dorian Lynskey and Lisa Mullen join Matthew Sweet to debate George Orwell's vision of a world of surveillance and propaganda.

Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and Dorian Lynskey join Matthew Sweet to debate George Orwell's vision of a world of surveillance, war and propaganda published in June 1949.  How far does his vision of the future chime with our times and what predictions might we make of our own future ? 

Dorian Lynskey has written The Ministry of Truth 
Joanna Kavenna's new novel Zed - a dystopian absurdist thriller is published in early July.
Peter Pomerantsev's new book This Is NOT Propaganda: Adventures in the war against reality is published in August. 
Lisa Mullen has published a book of criticism mid-century Gothic and is continuing her research on George Orwell.  You can hear her Free Thinking Festival Essay about the role of Orwell's wife Eileen asking Who Wrote Animal Farm? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000413q 

Part of a week long focus Free Thinking the Future. You can find more interviews and discussions to download and catch up with on the playlist on our website 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zwn4d 

You can find more Landmarks of Culture from 2001 Space Odyssey to Zamyatin's We in our playlist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44 

Producer: Zahid Warley

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