Room 101
Television Show
Torture chamber...place where British hostage Kenneth Bigley was caged before being beheaded. In George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Room 101 is a torture chamber. In Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, Erik (the Phantom's)... In this article: Coercion, Saddam Hussein, Europe, Suicide, Greek Military Police, and Grand Inquisitor |
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Times Online | October 15, 2009
Win a house history
...http://property-blog.chestertonhumberts.com). Her research has established that George Orwell may have based his Room 101 on a converted flat on Oxford Street and has profiled former homes of P.G. Wodehouse and T.S. Eliot. To win an overview...
In this article: George Orwell, T.S. Eliot, Room 101, and UK
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Daily Mail | June 08, 2009
Unending torment of the taxman's Room 101
...of the taxman's Room 101 Last updated at 8:52 AM on 08th June 2009 An office block in Bristol has become the financial equivalent of George Orwell's Room 101. Taxpayers chasing repayment of thousands of pounds they have been...
In this article: Revenue, Tax, Bristol, Room 101, Revenue & Customs, Bread, and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
Room 101
...where he used to sit through tedious meetings. The novel's popularity has resulted in the term "Room 101" being referred to in many fictional works as a place where unpleasant things are kept. On the TV show ''Room 101 '', celebrities are...
In this article: Winston Smith, Room 101, Julia, George Orwell, Room 101, Ministry of Love, Phobia, Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and 1984
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washingtonpost.com | April 18, 2009
Justice Dept. Memos' Careful Legalese Obscured Harsh Reality
...and commentator Scott Horton, noted that the Justice Department even approved of the modern equivalent of the Ministry of Love's Room 101 from George Orwell's "1984," where prisoners were forcibly threatened with physical manifestations of...
In this article: Detainee, CIA, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Tax, Pain and suffering, and Ministry of Love
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Chuck Versus the First Kill
...is a reference to the film, Spies Like Us. The prison cell Chuck is taken to to get Jill is Room 101, where your worst fears come to life, is a reference to George Orwell's classic 1984. The montage shown to the test-takers at the...
In this article: Chuck
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The Sydney Morning Herald : Technology Headlines | May 21, 2008
Kremlin critic gets genital reminder about who's in charge - web - Technology
...2006. In that incident, a group calling themselves Room 101 - a reference to the torture chamber in George Orwell's novel 1984 - disrupted a gathering by triggering a program code that generated a phalanx of virtual flying phalluses. [See...
In this article: Garry Kasparov, Moscow, Linux, MacBook, Apple, George Orwell, and Room 101
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Cast Courts (Victoria and Albert Museum)
...of contemporary artists. From November 2003 until June 2004, artist Rachel Whiteread's cast of Room 101: the BBC office where George Orwell worked some years before writing his famous novel Nineteen Eighty-four. The original room 101 was...
In this article: Victoria and Albert Museum, Trajan's Column, David, Donatello, Queen Victoria, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Henry Cole
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The New York Review of Books | March 04, 2009
Such, Such Was Eric Blair
...them with us as we carry Freudian tropes, whether or not we have read Freud. Some of those English couch potatoes watch programs called Big Brother and Room 101. And if we allow ourselves to hope for a future in which all Orwell's warnings...
In this article: George Orwell, Bernard Crick, Eton College, Potato, England, and Gavin Maxwell
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Huffington Post | April 30, 2009
Chris Matthews Reacts To Obama's Answers On Torture
...you can get people to do certain things. I'm not sure how Matthews gets from "some" people being "susceptible to torture" to Orwell's Room 101 at the Ministry of Love, which existed to prove that everyone is susceptible to torture, but I'd...
In this article: Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, United Airlines Flight 93, Dick Cheney, Harry S. Truman, Ministry of Love, and Msnbc.com
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Description from Wikipedia:
Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their hates with the host in order to have them consigned to the eponymous chamber from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Any item can go in and it is also possible for an item to be nominated more than once. Ben Elton has successfully been cast twice into Room 101 by Anne Robinson and Mark Steel. Football was originally nominated by Spike Milligan but failed to go in, but was later cast into Room 101 by Marcus Brigstocke.
The television series has been running since 4 July 1994. It is produced independently for the corporation by Hat Trick Productions, screened on BBC Two and repeated on Virgin 1. The audience will often take part in deciding what enters the room, although the host makes the final decision. The title refers to the location in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four within which, for each person, is the worst fear they can imagine. Appropriately, this is supposedly named after a conference room at BBC Broadcasting House where Orwell used to sit through tedious meetings.
The TV programme is one of BBC Two's most successful, and memorable guests have included Peter Cook, Will Self, Stephen Fry, Anne Robinson and Ian Hislop, the only person to appear twice on the show. Fry went as far as to put Room 101 itself into Room 101.
A Dutch version of Room 101 started on 6 February 2008. Hat Trick Productions are planning to bring back Room 101 as an interactive online version, in which, "a community of users who would make their case for everything they would consign to their own personal hell."
- Name:
- Room 101
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Produced by:
- Hat Trick Productions
- Length:
- 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Comedy talk show
- First:
- July 04, 1994
- Last:
- 9 February 2007
- Number of Episodes:
- 88
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