Nineteen Ninety-Four
Nineteen Ninety-Four is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series and a book written by William Osborne and Richard Turner. The six-part radio series was first broadcast in March 1985, and the book published in 1986. The title is a reference to the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, which this series parodies.
BBC [Radio 4 Extra] rebroadcast Nineteen Ninety-Four between 17 August and 21 September 2011.
Cast
- Robert Lindsay as Edward Wilson
- Paul Shearer as Charles
- Siobhan Redmond as Sophie
- Stephen Fry
- Hugh Laurie
- Emma Thompson
- David Goodland
- Pam Ferris
- Richard Turner
- Mark Knox
''Nineteen Ninety-Eight''
A sequel series of six episodes entitled Nineteen Ninety-Eight broadcast in 1987 continued the plot line. It was published as a book in 1988 and rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra from 8 February to 14 March 2012.Cast
- David Threlfall as Edward Wilson
- Mike Myers
- Stephen Fry
- Hugh Laurie
- Pam Ferris
- Jenny Luckraft
- Steve Steen
- Rebecca Stevens
- Richard Turner