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Goodness. One would think that the man who wrote two anti-totalitarian novels skewering Russian communism (those would be 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four') and who in addition wrote the great patriotic essay "My Country Right or Left" in the autumn of 1940, might still be honored for the work he did for the BBC during the war years, wouldn't one.
'Orwell is far too left-wing for us': What BBC chief told Joan Bakewell
over plans to honour 'greatest journalist of his day' with statue (Daily Mail)
'Orwell is far too left-wing for us': What BBC chief told Joan Bakewell
over plans to honour 'greatest journalist of his day' with statue (Daily Mail)
more, along with a great picture of Orwell smiling behind his BBC microphone, at link aboveThe BBC rejected a campaign to erect a statue of George Orwell outside Broadcasting House in London because the author was 'too left-wing'.
The author, who worked as a journalist for the Corporation during World War Two, was the subject of a campaign to get a statue in his honour outside BBC's Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus, central London.
But Baroness Joan Bakewell, who is leading the campaign to honour 'the greatest British journalist of his day', said outgoing BBC director general Mark Thompson turned down plans for the statue.
Orwell produced radio programmes at Broadcasting House during World War Two, before leaving to write Animal Farm and dystopian masterpiece 1984 (sic).
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