I'm going to From the NBC University Theater, a first radio production of the most challenging novel of 1949.

George Orwell's 1984, our star,. David Niven.

Here with a disturbing broadcast, a dramatization by Milton Wayne of George Orwell's 1984

in his current and very widely discussed novel, Mr Orwell has projected the totalitarian techniques

abroad in the world today to their terrible extreme.

The plight of the individual in this world we leave you to assess for yourselves as you listen to the story of Mr Winston Smith

portrayed today by the internationally known British actor David Niven.

At intermission we will bring you a commentary on Mr. Orwell's

writing by another distinguished author Mr. James Hilton. Here then is David

Niven in George Orwell's 1984.

The clocks of London are striking 13. On this cold April day, you hurry to escape the

vile wind. You slip quickly through the glass doors of victory mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent

a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with you.

The hallway swells of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.

At one end of it, an enormous coloured poster with a man's face more than three feet wide.

The face, a ruggedly handsome 45 with a heavy black mustache.

Big brother is watching you.

What's that? Oh, no need to jump like that, Mr Smith.

I was just reading off what it says on that poster oh of course

seven flights up your flat it's slow going for you Winston Smith frail and underweight

and 39 and tormented by a varicose ulcer above your right ankle.

You have to rest several times on the way.

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