{"id":35899,"date":"2019-12-10T18:25:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=35899"},"modified":"2019-12-10T18:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:25:42","slug":"how-relevant-is-1984-to-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/how-relevant-is-1984-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How relevant is George Orwell\u2019s 1984 to London today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With a general election looming, this podcast will be discussing the warnings George Orwell\u2019s 1984 may have provided for future London\u2026or in \u2018Newspeak\u2019- Airstrip One.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This election may be one of the most significant general elections in decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will the UK choose to stand strong and independent on the global stage or remain part of a firm European economic power-house? Will it choose to be led by a capitalist or a socialist?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With such big questions to answer and significant changes likely to take place, we\u2019ve been wondering what the UK\u2019s future might look like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, the best way to understand the future is to take a look at the past. And what better way is there to look back than a novel written in the past looking at the future?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this podcast, VoL will be exploring the concepts of Orwell\u2019s 1984 dystopian London society; to see what warnings and eventualities the book may hold for London today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How relevant is George Orwell\u2019s 1984 to London today? by Voice of London\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F725852851&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019d like to see Londoners thinking about Orwell\u2019s messages in 1984; so, why not visit notable Orwellian locations in London, and find our top four quotes from the book, which have been scattered across the capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use the interactive map to get you started on finding them. Once you\u2019ve found a quote, tweet us using the hashtag and tell us your thoughts- was Orwell correct?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do his words serve as a warning for London?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tweet us @voiceoflondonuk using <\/b><b>#<\/b><b>1984 to tell us your thoughts!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1Gf9xvJpzu7sq-2WiZirvEAbPwnpuF6vC&amp;w=640&amp;h=480]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019re not an Orwell boffin, or simply want to brush up on your 1984 knowledge before joining our podcast, check out SparkNotes\u2019 video summary: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h9JIKngJnCU&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Picks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/from-virginia-to-london-confronting-antisemitism\/\">From Virginia to London: confronting antisemitism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/sex-education-should-be-reinforced-at-universities\/\">Sex education should be reinforced at universities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/sanguinarians-the-vampires-living-in-the-uk\/\">\u201cSanguinarians\u201d: There are vampires living in the UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/top-5-weird-names-of-london-underground-stations\/\">Top 5 weird names of London Underground stations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Podcast: Monica Young and Zaina Emad | Photo credit: Monica Young and Zaina Emad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Words: Monica Young | Map and pictures: Zaina Emad | Illustration credit: Katie Purkis | Background music credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purple-planet.com\">Purple Planet<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a general election looming, this podcast will be discussing the warnings George Orwell\u2019s 1984 may have provided for future London\u2026or in \u2018Newspeak\u2019- Airstrip One. This election may be one of the most significant general&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":35900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,151,84,93,100,101,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comment","category-general-election","category-london","category-news","category-podcasts","category-politics","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}