1984

This podcast series is surprisingly compact thus very attractive to a modern literature and art consumer, so it didn't take me long to finish it. It's hard to use the word 'enjoy' given the context and the outcome of this classical piece but it definitely touched me as well as kept me tense and all ears. Both Andrews (Garfield and Scott) are fantastic: each of their words, sounds they uttered was permeated with their character's living essence whereas - it was most likely decided that way - Cynthia Erivo as Julia remained more distant and sober, which was probably a good balance. They got carried away, in my opinion, with the number of layers of sound audible at the same time (telescreens speaking, rattlings, street noises, yelling and shouting, etc.); it could have been a bit cleaner and clearer by the rule "less is more" but probably this exaggeration was part of the programme. But all in all, great work, highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of either of the Andrews or/and into noticing how at this very moment, 40 years after 1984, - at least some parts of - the world are falling thick and fast into this horrifying i-love-big-brother reality.