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19th April 2020 by Peter Davison
Peter Davison 5: Regarding Orwell
On 8 September 1981 the late Tom Rosenthal, then the boss of Secker & Warburg , rang me and asked if I would be… -
19th April 2020 by Peter Davison
Peter Davison 4: English Academic Approached to Edit Orwell
I was successively a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, and then a lecturer and senior lecturer at Birmingham… -
19th April 2020 by Peter Davison
Peter Davison 3: Meetings With Remarkable Minds
The loss of my three months preparation time meant starting to teach ‘Scholarship’ to the fourth-year honours class… -
19th April 2020 by Peter Davison
Peter Davison 2: Mature Student
Although there are academics quick to criticise Neville Coghill’s modernization of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, as we… -
19th April 2020 by Peter Davison
Peter Davison 1: Early Life and Military Service
(Professor Peter Davison talks to Jean Seaton) When I was born Orwell was 23; when he died, I was that age. We never met but,… -
14th April 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
“The Dirtiest Ramp of Modern Capitalism”
Orwell and Advertisements George Orwell, throughout his career as a novelist and journalist, maintained a fascination with… -
11th April 2020 by Ron Bateman
Out From the Shadows
I confess that in the first instance I was slightly daunted by the idea of tackling Sylvia Topp’s long-awaited biography of… -
7th April 2020 by Richard Lance Keeble
“Seeing What is in Front of One’s Nose”
The Importance of Orwell’s Domestic Diaries Amongst George Orwell’s greatest obsessions was gardening. He once said:… -
6th April 2020 by Orwell Society
BBC Radio 4 Open Book
In February our Patron Richard Blair appeared on Radio 4’s Open Book programme, presented by Mariella Frostrup, alongside… -
4th April 2020 by Orwell Society
BBC Arena 1983: George Orwell
In late 1983 BBC Television broadcast a biography of George Orwell in five parts, showing the places significant in…
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