Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

George Orwell managed to combine a conservative temperament with a socialist rejection of oppression. A lively new biography of the English radical explains how he held these contradictions together.

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...

The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC New Broadcasting House The BBC headquarters in London has got a new resident: he's tall, bronze and likes a smoke. A statue of novelist ...

English poet John Keats will be immortalised in a bronze sculpture, unveiled near his birthplace in Moorgate next week, it has been revealed. A public sculpture forged by sculptor Martin Jennings ...

Darcy Moore's deep interest in George Orwell was seeded at school ... Mr Moore travelled to Orwell's birthplace to further research his past. "Orwell was an Anglo-Indian. In other words, he ...

Darcy Moore's deep interest in George Orwell was seeded at school ... Mr Moore travelled to Orwell's birthplace to further research his past. "Orwell was an Anglo-Indian. In other words, he ...