How the ‘unadulterated horror’ of Peter Cushing’s Nineteen Eighty-Four broke the BBC

In 1954, Nigel Kneale’s ‘sadistic’ George Orwell adaptation terrified the nation – and became TV’s first ‘watercooler’ moment.

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