Take two of the most prominent English cultural properties of the past
several decades, bring them together, and what have you got? You’ve got Patrick Troughton, better known as the Second Doctor in TV’s Doctor Who, in a 1965 BBC Radio adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984.
Troughton was not yet the Doctor; the honor would not fall to him until
the following year when he replaced William Hartnell (with the latter’s
full approval, it seems). But he was a well-known character actor, the first to play Robin Hood on television
(in a 1953 BBC mini-series), and a figure who inspired a good deal of
respect in the British entertainment industry. Troughton was also a
decorated World War II veteran (who, when the year 1984 finally arrived,
suffered his second major heart attack).