The Telescreen Programme: Newspeak Phrasebook

08/21/22 • 6 min

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Brush up your Newspeak with a selection of typical scenes from Oceanian everyday life, with Oldspeak translation.

As a bonus mini-episode, we bring you a telescreen programme from the world of Orwell's 1984. Learn about Oceania's official language, Newspeak, maked hardworkwise by Oceania's goodest brainers to plusficient your talkfulness while decriming your think.

CAST

Robin Johnson as the shopkeeper and police
Alexander Paul Walsh as the Announcer and customers
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Captain Rutherford
Eve Morris as the Oldspeak interpreter

The lyrics of the Oceanian National Anthem, Oceania, 'Tis For Thee, were extrapolated by Robin from a title by George Orwell. The anthem was sung by several of Robin and two of Eve Morris, and accompanied by an unaccompanied public domain recording of The Internationale.

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Brush up your Newspeak with a selection of typical scenes from Oceanian everyday life, with Oldspeak translation.

CAST

Robin Johnson as the shopkeeper and police
Alexander Paul Walsh as the Announcer and customers
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Captain Rutherford
Eve Morris as the Oldspeak interpreter

A transcript of this episode is available here.

If you've enjoyed the show, we'd love it if you could leave us a rating on iTunes, Spotify, Podchaser or your favourite podcast site/app — and tell your friends!

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If you would like to help cover our costs, you can tip us at ko-fi.com/untruestories or buy Untrue Stories merch at our zazzle store.

Robin can be contacted at [email protected]. Share and Enjoy!

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5. Man Becomes a Different Animal

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Wells arrives in a distant future where humanity as we know it is extinct. How will he get his bicycle repaired now?

Following H. G. Wells' hurried departure from Orwell's world of 1984, his malfunctioning time-bicycle veers into the far and bizarre future that he will one day chronicle in his own novella, The Time Machine. Facing off against super-evolved pale blue cannibals, he's relieved to run into a couple of unexpected familiar faces.

CAST:

Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells;
Tara Court as Julia;
Canavan Connolly as the Morlock;
Robin Johnson as George Orwell and Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Captain Rutherford.

Written and produced by Robin Johnson, with music by the author and sound effects sourced from freesound.org.

References:

H. G. Wells' The Time Machine is in the public domain, and can be found at Project Gutenberg.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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6. The Wonderful Visit

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Orwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale.

Wells arrives back on the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere.

CAST

Robin Johnson as George Orwell
Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Chief Rutherford
Tara Court as Julia
Alexander Paul Walsh as Isaac Asimov
David Court as Ray Bradbury
Canavan Connolly as Nebogipfel the Morlock
Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
additional voices by Eve Morris, Robin, and Alexander

The music was by Robin Johnson, and sound effects were sourced from freesound.org.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

This episode marks Untrue Stories' first season finale. Producing Untrue Stories is the most fun I've had for ages. I'd like to thank everybody in the cast for being part of my daft thing, and the audiodrama communities on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, who are all much nicer than the ambient niceness on those hellsites. We're of course indebted to all the speculative fiction writers we've messed about with—George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Asimov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Ella Merchant, John Wyndham, and any I've forgotten—and to you for listening. Thank you!

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