Arena

Arena - Season 1 Episode 215 George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four

2024-12-29 90 minutes.
7.22 9 votes

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50 Season 50 Nov 22, 2024
14 Season 14 Jan 01, 1970
1 Season 1 Oct 01, 1975

Overview

The last in this series of Arena films about the life and work of George Orwell begins with the tragic death of his wife Eileen in March 1945. Overcome with grief at his bereavement and despair at the future of Britain under the post-war Labour government, Orwell retreated to the remote Hebridean island of Jura. It was here, crippled with tuberculosis and isolated from the rest of the world, that Orwell cared for his adopted infant son, Richard, and wrote his last novel Nineteen Eighty-four-a nightmare vision of a totalitarian future in which Big Brother controls not only the lives but also the thoughts of his citizens, and love and individual freedom is no more than a distant memory. Among those appearing are Avril Dunn, Bill Dunn, Susan Watson, Sonia Orwell and Richard Blair.

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