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Aug 2024
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1984 (the year not the book) 40th Annive...

BENJAMEN WALKER & RADIOTOPIA
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Forty years ago in 1984 your host was twelve years old and like George Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith, he kept a diary, for the citizens of the future. For this special installment of Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything we travel back in time and give this diary a soundtrack. TV commercials, radio spots, movie clips – all sound from 1984 (the year, not the book). Find out what totalitarianism really sounds like.  *********more details on this  installment**********
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