George Orwell's '1984', a book about a dystopian future in which a totalitarian regime assumes full control over an individual's body and mind, suddenly shot to the top of the Amazon best-seller list in the United States back in 2017. You can probably guess why...

On the eve of the 70th anniversary of its publication this June, we're dedicating two episodes to what is perhaps the most overused novel when it comes to fiction predictions.

In this first part, we talk to Prof. Jean Seaton, the director of the Orwell Foundation, to talk about the ways in which Orwell wrote 1984 as a rulebook for future generations and what place he reserved for hope.

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