On the Road with Penguin Classics

Nineteen Eighty-Four with Robert Icke


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George Orwell in Airstrip One. The writer and director Robert Icke joins Henry to explore the real-world locations in London that inspired George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Together they tour the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Love and Room 101. Robert co-adapted and co-directed the award-winning 2013 stage adaptation 1984, which has played on the West End and Broadway and toured the UK, the USA and Australia.

 

Penguin Modern Classics editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html

https://apple.co/32u5uNJ

 

Penguin audiobook of Nineteen Eighty-Four, read by Peter Capaldi

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1057013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141989969.html

https://apple.co/3fSibVQ


Robert Icke

https://roberticke.com/


Robert Icke’s production of 1984

https://headlong.co.uk/productions/1984/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1984-9781350262713/


UCL Senate House

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-senate-house-hub

 

BBC Broadcasting House

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/buildings/broadcasting-house/

 

Untitled (Room 101) by Rachel Whiteread

http://www.modusoperandi-art.com/projects/bbc_untitled_room_101/


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