Watch the Opening Credit of an Imaginary 70s Cop Present Starring Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beck­ett: avant-garde drama­tist, brood­ing Nobel Prize win­ner, poet, and…gritty tele­vi­sion detec­tive? Unhappy­ly, no, however he had the mak­ings of a terrific one, no less than as lower togeth­er by play­wright Dan­ny Thomp­son, cofounder of Chicago’s The­ater Oobleck. Some 35 years after Beckett’s dying, Thompson—whose cred­its embody the Com­plete Misplaced Works of Samuel Beck­ett as…

Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949)

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Since George Orwell pub­lished his land­mark polit­i­cal fable 1984, every gen­er­a­tion has discovered ample rea­son to make ref­er­ence to the grim near-future envi­sioned by the nov­el. Whether or not Orwell had some prophet­ic imaginative and prescient or was sim­ply a really astute learn­er of the insti­tu­tions of his day—all nonetheless with us in mutat­ed kind—hardly mat­ters….