{"id":102160,"date":"2026-09-14T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102160"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:21:31","slug":"george-orwell-according-to-family-and-friends-writers-wordsmiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/george-orwell-according-to-family-and-friends-writers-wordsmiths\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell according to family and friends &#8211; <em>Writers &#038; Wordsmiths<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VCKl4OGppnM?si=NkkF6KAsuvP6PnMO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 21 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p>This programme contains attitudes of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Recollections of George Orwell by his wife Sonia Orwell, sister Avril Dunn, and friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Cyril Connolly. [Original billing]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From early in his writing career, Eric Blair adopted the <em>nom de plume<\/em>, which he is now universally known. He became George Orwell. In his will, he emphatically directed that no biography of him should be written. And to insure his wishes were respected, effectively covered up his traces. Blair hid behind Orwell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man behind <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, <em>Animal Farm<\/em> and <em>The Road to Wigan Pier<\/em> was elusive, but in this programme family and friends share memories of the influential author.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from <em>George Orwell: 1903-1950<\/em>, originally broadcast on 20 November, 1965.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Archive Published 21 Mar 2026 This programme contains attitudes of its time. Recollections of George Orwell by his wife Sonia Orwell, sister Avril Dunn, and friends Malcolm Muggeridge and Cyril Connolly. [Original billing] &#8220;From early in his writing career, Eric Blair adopted the nom de plume, which he is now universally known. He became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,4,7],"tags":[1391,570,354],"class_list":["post-102160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","tag-biography","tag-england","tag-georgeorwell"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qzK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102161,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102160\/revisions\/102161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}