75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still ... a mail-sorting room). 9. Orwell retreated to ...

Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric ... Radio 4 will take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, Manor Farm along the road that led to ...

Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.