Reading Orwell

About Reading Orwell

A podcast featuring chapter-by-chapter and topic-led commentaries on George Orwell’s novels & non-fiction. Aimed at school students & university undergraduates. Made by Dr Nathan Waddell, University of Birmingham, UK. Text versions of all episodes available at https://drnjwaddell.co.uk/reading-orwell.

Publisher

Nathan Waddell

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Apr 2020

Latest episode

3 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Feb 2026

   26. Orwell and Aldous Huxley

   An account of Orwell's and Aldous Huxley's views of their most famous works, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Brave New World (1932), concentrating on how each writer thought they'd outdone the other in imagining the future.

2. 

   3 May 2024

   25. A conversation with Professor David Dwan, University of Oxford

   A conversation with ⁠Professor David Dwan⁠ (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-david-dwan)about Animal Farm (1945) and the annotated edition of it he produced in 2021 for the Oxford World's Classics series.

3. 

   14 Nov 2023

   24. Thoughts on Nineteen Eighty-Four: Part III

   The third and final instalment of a 3-part mini-series looking at Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in hour-long episodes, focusing on Part III of the book.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

4.9 / 5

11 ratings