Pacifica Radio's KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California, the first publicly-funded radio station in the USA (1949), will broadcast and stream George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on Tuesday, June 27 from 6AM until 9PM PT (but will not have any actual content until 12:01AM Tuesday.)
The classic cover-to-cover reading [recorded in 1975] is by [longtime KPFA morning host and] blacklisted writer Charles Morgan and legendary voiceover artist June Foray [Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick; Stan Freberg collaborator].
[...] KPFA is also heard on KPFB 89.3 FM in Berkeley, KFCF [...] 88.1 FM in Fresno, and 97.5 FM K248BR in Santa Cruz.
It will also be broadcast simultaneously on Pacifica stations WBAI in New York and WPFW in Washington DC (9AM ET to Midnight), KPFT in Houston, and KPFK in Los Angeles, as well as many Pacifica affiliates. (Another streaming link on that page.)
For those who are impatient or otherwise-occupied on that day, the 13 one-hour segments of the audiobook (not 10 installments, as some sources indicate) are available as CDs. Caveat: $18 each.
This is one of many offerings of the Pacifica Radio Archives, sometimes known as From the Vaults. The project is transferring decades of programming recorded on reel-to-reel tape to digital format before those available-nowhere-else recordings degrade to nothingness. The project is funded by sales of CDs of their efforts and a yearly 1-day network-wide drive.
A source says they also have this on 13 pages at Soundcloud (Javascript required). That source also notes that the "audiobook" undersells the dramatic audio presentation a bit.
Depending on how ridiculous the length of copyright is where you are, you may also be able to legally download the text of the novel, gratis.
The University of Adelaide has a very nice HTML presentation, chapter-by-chapter. (My favorite chapter is Part Two, Chapter IX, where Emmanuel Goldstein's "The Book" describes the purpose of perpetual war (Oligarchy; Fascism). Scroll down to "Chapter III" for the good stuff. This is in Part 8 of Pacifica's recordings.)
Project Gutenberg, Canada will give you the whole book in one gulp (HTML format; 597kB).
(Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Saturday June 24 2017, @08:51AM (7 children)
I always preferred Brave New World, but I might try to listen in (I haven't used radio for a long time). June Foray is seriously nostalgic. I can't tell when it starts, though: 12:01 AM, the content start time, is before 6:00 AM, the show start time.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday June 24 2017, @09:59AM (3 children)
any chance it can be ..errr...converted to podcast?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:28PM (1 child)
http://www.google.com/search?q=VLC+capture.webcast [google.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:43AM
Forgot to mention in the summary that this is the first time since the original broadcast in 1975 that the whole thing will be done in 1 day.
KPFK veteran Roy Tuckman (Roy of Hollywood) has been doing 1-hour installments on his midnight-to-6AM show on Monday nights/Tuesday mornings at about 3:30 to 4:30.
KPFK's Audio Archive [kpfk.org]
(Select "Something's Happening B".)
N.B. I don't stream content.
I don't download the fancy shit on their page either and I think that clicking their latest click-this-button shit starts an in-browser player.
In my readable-text-only presentation, I end up marking the Days to Stay number, holding down the Shift key, hitting RightArrow once, right-clicking, selecting View Selection Source and finding the URL of the MP3.
With my browser off-line, I drag and drop that URL to a new tab and drag and drop the resulting favicon into my file manager (wget is my download manager).
You may be able to use some form of this trick to get the stream and capture it.
Could be you're stuck with their player.
Note: The first Monday of the month, he deviates from his usual programming and does Old Radio Night.
Additionally, they only archive that show for 60 days.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:01PM
I included the Tuesday, June 27 [kpfa.org] link in the summary in hopes that a stream would be available for each hourly installment on that day (and afterwards in perpetuity).
The news is even better than that.
Not only is a stream available for each, there is also a download link for each (MP3, 22MB each).
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday June 24 2017, @08:38PM
Plan for the start time to be a bright cold day in April, when the clocks strike thirteen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:09PM
Really?
FTFS: 6AM till 9PM PT
PT == Pacific time
Again FTFS: It will also be broadcast simultaneously on Pacifica stations WBAI in New York and WPFW in Washington DC (9AM ET to Midnight)
ET == Eastern time
Map of more time zones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#UTC_offsets_worldwide [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @04:55AM
The 12:01AM reference (clearer in the original submission, before editing)[1] refers to the link immediately before that (their audio archive for Tuesday's programming, which, of course, won't have any actual content--beyond the boilerplate text--until the first program of the day begins).
From midnight to 6AM Pacific Time will be their regular programming.
[1] Next time you have a question that isn't answered in the summary, I suggest that you click the Original Summary link and see if that clears up things.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by turgid on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:21AM (8 children)
1984 is worth reading at least once in your life. It's pretty heavy-going.
We had to study it in school when we were 16 years old. It profoundly affected me. I always look back at how limited my imagination was.
In those days, home computers were not ubiquitous. It was before PCs became cheap and popular, and before the Internet was talked about.
The one particular thing that made me optimistic about society having read 1984 was that the regime in that novel relies on pervasive surveillance, and in my teenage brain, I tried to calculate the scale of the effort required and cost of installing such an infrastructure. I came to the conclusion that it would never happen, so we'd be safe. Our thoughts would be free.
Five years later, everyone it seemed had a PC and was falling over themselves to get on the Internet, voluntarily. Along came webcams and broadband.
Now we have cameras and microphones everywhere, on our phones, GPS, TVs that watch us, huge bandwidth for multimedia, the authorities have automated systems for exploiting flaws in hardware and software, so do the baddies...We post images and text, information about or location (hi burglars), our beliefs, our likes and dislikes, we casually insult people.
The jack boot is on the human face.
No one had to do it to us. We did it to ourselves, voluntarily and enthusiastically.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)
I'll put the spyware in my body if it grants me immortality.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 24 2017, @02:28PM
But Iam already immortal, and will remain so until I die. Proof: No matter what happens, I will not die before I die. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @01:40PM (4 children)
The clipper chip era had me worried about the 'trust' of computer systems, but the level of ubiquitous surveillance that 1984 depicted seemed farfetched (everything ELSE about the novel seemed believable, especially after East Germany, American attitudes during the Cold War, etc.
Social networking was the first red flag. After 10-20 years of most people only getting online via handles (thanks in large part to the 8 character username limits of those early systems, leading to almost everyone having a handle instead of their real name posted.) Then came cell phones and the selfie and I had some hope that people would come to their senses after all this personal information they posted came home to roost. Now ~10 years after THAT blew up with people having all that personal information used against them by hiring managers, marketers, etc, I have no hope that humanity will grow up and do better, and from that I realize the true brilliance of works such as 1984, which presciently fortold just how stupid humans collectively are, and how given enough time and the right human resources, any revolution, whether of the mind, or body, can be quashed, rendering free thinkers impotent in their quest to elicit change. Because in the end people collectively don't want change, they want authorities to tell them how to live life.
As a P.S. Somebody should get DNA from June Foray, according to her wikipedia page she never had kids, but she was hot up to at least her 40s, and has lived to be at least 99, being a voice actor for over 80 years! Somebody needs to clone that shit for future generations so that her genes will go on to have the descendants she never had :(
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 24 2017, @02:26PM (2 children)
I think even Orwell wasn't expecting that people would voluntarily put spying technology like telescreens (i.e. TVs with integrated camera and microphone) into their homes. In his novel, while IIRC not explicitly said, it was basically mandatory that you had one. Not having one would have made you suspicious. But in our world, nobody is forced to buy it, yet there are enough people who do.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 24 2017, @02:38PM
It is worth remembering that in 1984, the common people simply didn't give a shit about the government. Government was obsessed with controlling those with intelligence and education, and even more obsessed with controlling those who might have any kind of influence. But, the common people? They just didn't care about government, and government cared very little about them.
That's pretty much what we see in real life today. You have to earn a flag, in one way or another, before government takes an interest in you. And, most of the Facefook crowd has pretty close to zero interest in government. They are mostly led by nose rings, and fed the proper diet of propaganda, and they remain meaningless in the grand scheme of things. They are left along to fornicate, get intoxicated, and act stupid, in whatever manner and whatever order they wish, until they earn a flag. "Interesting person, possible terrorist relations" or some such silly crap.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday June 24 2017, @08:57PM
It seems like at least in Britain, he had it on the nose about ubiquitous acceptance of surveillance [satwcomic.com] and providing access to your private information. Just don't mess with the chocolate rations [theregister.co.uk].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:58AM
Everyone focuses on the mass surveillance of society in that book. They usually miss a couple of other big things. Such as re-editing of language to be more PC. The surveillance was part of it to enforce the re-writing of history to re-fit the narative big brother wanted.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday June 24 2017, @02:45PM
Obama wiretapped my phones. Put a tapp on my phones. .@FoxNews from multiple sources: "There was electronic surveillance of Trump, and people close to Trump. This is unprecedented." @FBI
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 24 2017, @04:14PM (1 child)
Wait, $18? Do they want to tell us something with choosing specifically that number? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:23PM
Sorry to spoil your fun, but I rounded that off.
The price on their page(s) is $17.95.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @06:34PM
I listened to Nineteen Eighty-Four as a book-on-tape. In September 2001, I carried a Walkman cassette player containing the tape, which means I was listening to 1984 on 9/11. Good job with the false flag operation, Bush Laden O'Brien. I know it was you.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:47AM
I said "audiobook" undersells the dramatic audio presentation a bit
You changed that to the "audiobook" undersells the dramatic audio presentation a bit
...which wasn't what I was trying to say.
What was being said by me and was indicated by the page is that the dramatic thing by Pacifica contains sound effects, bridge music, and such, which your standard they-simply-read-the-text-aloud "audiobook" does not.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 28 2017, @03:01AM