Orwell on BBC4, Porter on More4: strange juxtaposition

Bizarre coincidence on TV tonight: More4 had a good documentary by Observer journalist Henry Porter on the surveillance society and the sheer amount of information which is collected on us every day of our lives, mostly without us even knowing. The signal began to break up about halfway through (we have continual problems with signal break-up on the multiplex which includes More4, Channel 4, all ITV channels etc - because we don't have a wideband aerial yet.) So I was forced to switch channels to BBC4 when a documentary on dystopian futures in British Sci-Fi was being shown. The work being discussed at precisely the same time was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's at times like these that there seems to be a bizarre bleed-through from fantasy to reality... time to get over to Infowars!