In a totalitarian future, Winston Smith secretly rebels against the all-seeing Party through forbidden thoughts and love, only to face the state's overwhelming machinery of control.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on August 27, 1949. It is listed as episode 56 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes David Niven, James Hilton, Donald Morrison, Ben Wright, and John Ramsay Hill. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Milton Wayne as radio adaptor, and Don Stanley as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 59 minutes.

This version dramatizes 1984. George Orwell is credited as author and Milton Wayne adapted it for radio.

A literary anthology presenting radio adaptations of important novels and plays, designed to bring major works of literature to a broad audience and at times used alongside university study programs.