Nineteen Eighty-Four (In Our Time)
1949 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George Orwell's (1903-1950) final novel, published in 1949, set in a dystopian London which is now found in Airstrip One, part of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania which is always at war and where the protagonist, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth as a rewriter of history: 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1949
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Suez Crisis (1956)