While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell, running from late January 2013. Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone ...

Guest: Dorian Lynskey is a British writer and journalist who has been covering music, film, and politics for more than twenty years. He is the author of the book The Ministry of Truth: The Biography ...

Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel ...

John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas Joseph ...

The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC New Broadcasting House The BBC headquarters in London has got a new resident: he's tall, bronze and likes a smoke. A statue of novelist ...

Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling ... not been honed into oblivion—on the contrary, new ones spring to life with giddy regularity—but they fail, all too often, in the same ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and ...