1 “If that is what the world is going to be like” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.
2 “the production and message” – Memo, D. K. Wolfe-Murray to Director of Television Broadcasting, December 16, 1954.
3 “the subject of the sharpest controversy” – New York Times, December 17, 1954.
4 “horrible play” – Daily Mirror, December 16, 1954.
5 “cold eyes stared” – Films and Filming, September 1958, quoted in Jason Jacobs, The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Clarendon Press, 2000), p. 138.
6 “It was so awful” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.
7 “Never has anything more vile” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.
8 “a nauseating story” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.
9 “a picture of a world” – Daily Mirror, December 17, 1954.
10 “A Million NIGHTMARES” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.
11 “pander to sexual and sadistic tastes” – Daily Mirror, December 15, 1954.
12 “Listeners!” – The Goon Show, “Nineteen Eighty-Five”, BBC Home Service, January 4, 1955.
13 “probably acquire” – Bernard Hollowood, “On the Air”, Punch, December 22, 1954, quoted in Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 279.
14 “if someone had written a novel in 1910” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.
15 “the beastliness of Communism” and “probably arose” – Daily Mail, December 14, 1954.
16 “the lowest essence” – Guardian, December 22, 1954.
17 “a typical brain-washing letter” – Guardian, December 29, 1954.
18 “an ideological superweapon” – Isaac Deutscher, “1984: The Mysticism of Cruelty”, reprinted in Williams (ed.), p. 119.
19 “marginal” – London Times, December 16, 1954.