Orwell and Security: An online discussion
Klaudia Zotzmann-Koch talks to George Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, as well as Quentin Kopp and Fenna Williams from the Orwell Society, about Nineteen Eighty-Four, life on Jura, family, surveillance, society and what we still can learn from Orwell’s works for generations to come. A discussion recorded on February 5th 2021.
00:00:00.000 Warm welcome to the guests
00:02:01.832 Who are the guests?
00:03:08.533 About the Orwell Society
00:08:15.401 Life on Jura
00:25:50.296 Father, son and family
00:30:26.508 Back on Jura
00:32:10.961 Homage to Catalonia – How Quentin’s and Richard’s fathers were related
00:41:42.973 Writing 1984
00:50:53.583 Medicine for some
00:54:43.690 The last months
00:58:51.543 Letter to David Astor
01:04:29.025 On Animal Farm
01:08:07.684 Not all of us are writers
01:13:05.271 When Richard realized, who his father was
01:17:29.047 Alternative facts
01:19:06.925 How do you surpass someone like Orwell?
01:21:48.923 Surveillance society
01:28:03.384 Courageous authors need courageous publishers
01:29:59.172 A flexible mind
01:33:15.784 Learn from history and do something about it
01:36:33.253 Napoleon and the Romans
01:37:55.378 Encouraging people to fight against slavery
01:42:01.636 It is about control
01:45:53.056 A hero for a lot of people
01:47:55.734 Bad news sells – a lot of good goes on but nobody ever knows
01:55:06.880 Some advice for generations to come
01:56:02.650 On being Europeans
02:00:40.293 We have to learn to listen again
02:04:54.282 Self-censorship vs agreeing to disagree
02:10:26.640 The Orwell Society
02:17:45.761 Coming to an end
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