What did George Orwell, the spartan, no-nonsense socialist, make of the world’s most famous (and most egomaniacal) surrealist? Can we really separate the art from the artist? Does morality have anything to do with art? What does this eighty-year-old essay tell us about the modern culture of celebrity and social media? Listen to find out!
27 Nov 2022
Bookshop Memories
Join us as we dust the dead bluebottle flies off the merchandise and throw open the doors of Booklover’s Corner, the shop where George Orwell worked part-time for about two years. We chat about weird customers, money and books and literary pretentions. We apologise for the quality of the sound; blame the G&T.
1 May 2022
Can Socialists be Happy?
Join us as we discuss the 1943 essay in which Orwell brings together politics, pleasure, utopias and talking horses. You heard.
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