Decoding the world view of George Orwell in his novel "1984": a totalitarian society under the supervision of Big Brother. Interview: Bernard Crick (biographer of G. Orwell) // Jean-Daniel Jurgensen (writer) // Eric Hobsbawm (historian)

Bernard Crick (Orwell biographer) analyses "1984" as a satire of contemporary society by George Orwell and not as a prophecy. He compares it to Jonathan Swift ("Gulliver’s Travels"): "The author does not make predictions. As in "Gulliver’s Travels", he describes a cartoon of our society".

In the Grand Soir 3, Francis Letellier receives Fabrice Lhomme, great reporter at Le Monde, to talk about this book which he is the author with Gérard Davet, "Un président ne devrait pas dire ça, les secrets d'un quinquennat". The result of long hours of interviews with President François Hollande, it’s more than a book of confessions: it’s a true counter-investigation into François Hollande’s five-year term.

Unpacking the children’s gaze on nudity: this is the idea of the authors of the book "Tous à poil". But the president of the UMP, Jean-François COPE, does not listen to it, and has launched a controversy. The Minister of National Education, Vincent PEILLON, defends this work: "It is a work that is done on the body, on identity, on the fact of not being afraid of his body and saying simple things".

Jacques Martin is at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris, where he will perform "Une case de vide", the "one man show", which he wrote and directed. He summarizes the plot and explains the choice of decor: indeed, the latter represents the interior of his head.

After 'La Haine, les années Sarko", journalists from Le Monde Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme publish "Apocalypse now, les années Fillon". This survey focuses on the political-judicial scandals born of fratricidal struggles within the French right between 2014 and 2019. The authors are on set to talk about it.

Interviewed by Louis PAUWELS, Salvador DALI responds to the accusations of André Breton calling him a traitor to surrealism, loving money too much with an anagram "Avida dollars", "magic anagram" for Salvador DALI, who since a shower of dollars with a "delicious monotony". He loves silver and gold more than anything, after his wife Gala. He believes in crazy love but not crazy love like the surrealists. It shows how we live from the "charity of 1900", the year in which all the great advances of society and science were made with the thinkers Freud, Marx, or the invention of the metro.

Richard BOHRINGER, principal actor of the film "Italian of the Roses" by Charles Matton who chose him specifically for this role, evokes the subtle combination between man and actor, and what exists between the two. He would like to write a play about acting which he loves very much and considers as "very feminine" in a tender and understanding way.

The playwright Tiago RODRIGUES meets students in applied LEA to present his show "By Heart", in which he invites the public to participate in the show.

She is 28 years old, she is originally from St Quentin and if she is not yet well known by the general public, Delphine GLEIZE has already made a name for herself in the film industry... Young director Picarde is currently shooting her first feature film, Carnage, starring Chiara MASTROIANNI in person.

Avec le concours d'une danseuse, Maurice Béjart explique ce qu'est un adage dans un pas de deux puis déclare : "la danse classique, je crois, est une base très importante et indispensable, et elle mène à tout... à condition d'en sortir" !

Michel Piccoli tells Laure Adler how the love scene, "Le Mépris" between him and Brigitte Bardot was shot by Jean-Luc Godard. He also says that the director wrote this scene after completing the shoot.