The Ministry of Truth
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The POUM militia at the Lenin barracks in Barcelona, early 1937
Orwell’s first wife, Eileen Blair (née O’Shaughnessy), photographed in 1938
Recording the second episode of the poetry programme Voice for the BBC’s Eastern Service, September 8, 1942. Clockwise from left: George Woodcock, Mulk Raj Anand, George Orwell, William Empson, Edmund Blunden and Herbert Read
The statue of Orwell that stands outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London
The BBC in 1932
Orwell at home, 27b Canonbury Square, London, October or November 1945
Barnhill, the farmhouse on Jura where Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four
Fredric Warburg, Orwell’s British publisher
Orwell’s second wife, Sonia Blair (née Brownell), at the premiere of the Animal Farm movie, December 1954
The Secker & Warburg first edition, 1949
In 2018 the Signet Classics edition sold 270,000 copies in the United States.
Donald Pleasence as Syme and Peter Cushing as Winston in the BBC adaptation, broadcast December 12, 1954
Eddie Albert as Winston in the CBS Studio One version, broadcast September 21, 1953
Poster for the 1956 movie version
David Bowie with his band during the Diamond Dogs tour, Los Angeles, 1974
The “1984” commercial for the Apple Macintosh, conceived by Chiat/Day and directed by Ridley Scott
John Hurt as Winston (left) in the 1984 movie version, directed by Michael Radford
Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry in Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam
Hugo Weaving as V in the 2005 movie V for Vendetta, directed by James McTeigue
Planned Parenthood supporters dress as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood to protest the Republican Party’s healthcare bill in Washington, DC, June 2017.
THE
MINISTRY
OF
TRUTH
Dorian Lynskey has been writing about music, film, books and politics for more than twenty years for publications including the Guardian, the Observer, GQ, Q, Empire, Billboard and the New Statesman. His first book, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, was published in 2011. He hosts the Remainiacs podcast.
ALSO BY DORIAN LYNSKEY
33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs
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