Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis explore the extent to which the works of George Orwell and Franz Kafka continue to express the reality and frustration of life in the 21st century.

Christopher Hollis' Study of George Orwell, suggests to me that Orwell's request may have been well-founded. Hollis finds in Orwell's work a basically Christian figure whose life "only makes sense ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about ... He added: "In terms of improving our understanding of Orwell's work, I suspect his letters to Eleanor reminiscing about their country ...

The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC ... But Orwell didn't even work at Broadcasting House. When, aged 38, he became a talks assistant in the Overseas Empire Department and ...