NBC University Theater

Nineteen Eighty-Four

NBC University Theater presents radio adaptations of literary works, bringing novels and other writing to listeners in dramatic form. This broadcast adapts George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian story about a society ruled by surveillance and political control.

The program turns the novel into a performance for radio, using voices and sound to convey its imagined world and the pressures faced by its characters. Listeners can experience Orwell’s unsettling vision through a focused dramatic adaptation rather than the full text of the novel.

The result is serious, thought-provoking radio drama, suited to listeners interested in classic literature and stories about power, freedom, and the individual under an authoritarian system.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.