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At 1pm every day St Mark’s Church in Worsley strikes 13. It’s thought to be the only clock in the UK that does so.
The only way for the liberal regime to survive is to take a good look at itself through the eyes of the Machiavellians.
The Sohemian Society will be staging its first event at its new home on Tuesday 6 May -- upstairs at The Fitzroy Tavern.
George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...
That phrase has now been given a new look by amateur translator Tsiu Ing-sing (周盈成), who recently completed the first full ...
Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week ...
The lines between human and animal are blurred more than ever before in Tatty Hennessy’s hard-hitting adaptation of George Orwell’s political satire ... people with two legs on stage as they chant ...
There is a riveting moment in George Orwell’s novel 1984 when Winston Smith, a citizen of the totalitarian state of Oceania, opens a poorly bound book with fraying pages. Reading this work ...
4 Extra Debut. Superintendent Bucken battles a blackmailer threatening to detonate bombs on a ship wreck in the River Thames. Stars Brian Cox. Hand over a million pounds or the East End of London ...
George Orwell’s cautionary dystopian novel, first published in 1949. Dramatised by Eric Ewens. First broadcast as the Sunday Play on BBC Home Service in October 1965. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' is ...