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John Hurt as Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Introducing: John Hurt

“INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE DOCTOR” When those words flashed up in the final scene of The Name of the Doctor, a nation gasped. In fact, if it weren’t for…

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Eccleston Tackles 1984

Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, will play the lead role, Winston Smith, in BBC Radio Four’s first ever dramatisation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The dystopian novel, written by George Orwell, was published…