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19th September 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Play’s the Thing: Orwell and Drama (Last of Three)
Drama at the BBC: The next act Orwell’s work for the BBC is not to end in November 1943. For through his friendship with Rayner… -
12th September 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Play’s the Thing: Orwell and Drama (Second of Three)
Dramatic times at the BBC While working as a talks assistant and later talks producer in the Indian section of the BBC’s… -
6th September 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Play’s the Thing: Orwell and Drama (First of Three)
Introduction George Orwell is best known as the author of the novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); as an… -
27th August 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell in the Waugh-zone
Throughout his writing career, George Orwell maintained a constant critique of Roman Catholics. There was one major exception:… -
22nd August 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Forgotten Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Orwell’s eye-witness account of his time fighting alongside Republican militiamen in the Spanish civil war, Homage to… -
11th August 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
Warburg and the Making of George Orwell
The article below first appeared in 2020. Discussing the influence of George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, it… -
5th August 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
Orwell and the Atomic Bomb
George Orwell’s reflections about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August seventy-five years ago – in… -
31st May 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
Eileen, Orwell and Anti-Militarism
Until the publication of Sylvia Topp’s excellent Eileen: The Making of George Orwell (Unbound, 2020), many commentators had… -
21st May 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Wedding – through Eileen’s Eyes
Sylvia Topp’s excellent, recently published life of Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s first wife (Unbound, 2020),… -
4th May 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
The Heart of the Matter
George Orwell and Fatherhood: Part Three * Orwell as a Father: Confounding All Expectations Orwell had long expressed his wish to…
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