Producers of a new version of George Orwell's classic suggest his dystopic fiction is chillingly relevantOn 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his seminal novel telling of a future society held captive by the ever-watchful oppressive gaze of Big Brother. The author's vision of 1984 was a world of "perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public mind control".Against the backdrop of WikiLeaks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM on May 7, 2014