Tag Archives: Eric Blair

View John Bird’s Festival opening address online

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Gofblog

Big Issue Films is presenting highlights of its founder John Bird’s address at the opening of the George Orwell Festival on 9 September. Don’t miss this opportunity to catch John’s frank and sometimes controversial account of how Orwell’s work informed his … Continue reading →

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‘The enduring myth of George Orwell’

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Gofblog

Review on Salon.com of John Rodden’s new book The Unexamined Orwell which examines the legendary status the Nineteen Eighty-Four author has achieved since his death…

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‘Last Man in Europe’ brings triumphal Festival week to moving close

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Gofblog

Michael McEvoy’s one-man play about George Orwell ‘The Last Man in Europe’, presented in St Mary church, Wallington (where Orwell himself was married) was a moving conclusion to the 2011 Festival. Our gratitude and best wishes to everyone who attended the … Continue reading →

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‘Orwell was one of my biggest inspirations’ reveals John Bird at Festival opening

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Gofblog

The George Orwell Festival 2011 was launched yesterday evening with sound and fury by John Bird MBE, respected editor and founder of the international street newspaper The Big Issue. In his opening keynote address at David’s Bookshop, Letchworth, Bird spoke passionately … Continue reading →

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‘George Orwell was not our Big Brother but our uncle’

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Gofblog

Orwell’s surviving nephew and nieces remember their ‘Uncle Eric’ in this Times & Star article…

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Recalling Eric Blair’s beer mug…

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Gofblog

Broadcast on the Saturday Live programme on BBC Radio 4, 27 August 2011: Listen now (60 minutes in which this is quite a long item, with Irene Stacey speaking) The Thing About Me :: Orwell jug ‘‘Irene Stacey, former landlady of the … Continue reading →

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‘The other George Orwell’…

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Gofblog

“Keeping George Orwell recognisably human is one of the driving forces too behind the recent launch of the Orwell Society, which at long last gives Orwell the kind of literary society, aimed at appreciation, debate and discovery, accorded to numerous … Continue reading →

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Orwell’s house for rent…

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Gofblog

Oxfordshire letting agents are making much of the fact that what’s “thought to be” one of Orwell’s childhood homes, in the town of Shiplake, where the Blairs lived between 1912 and 1915, has come onto the market for rent. According to some … Continue reading →

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Re. Henry Miller’s changing jacket…

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Gofblog

Passing through Paris en route to the Spanish Civil War in December 1936, Orwell dropped in on expatriate American writer Henry Miller at his studio in Villa Seurat. Orwell had praised Miller’s novel ‘Tropic of Cancer’ (1934), and the two had … Continue reading →

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