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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