Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Andrew Biswell talks to Dr Nathan Waddell, Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature at the Univerisity of Birmingham, about George Orwell and Dystopian Fiction. Find out more about Orwell's experiences in Burma, his inspiration for Nineteen Eighty-Four and Anthony Burgess's response to that novel among many other things in this wide-ranging discussion.
Information about Nathan Waddell's work, including his Reading Orwell project, can be found at drnjwaddell.co.uk
For more information about Anthony Burgess and to find out how you can support the work of the Burgess Foundation, visit anthonyburgess.org
In this episode, the Burgess Foundation's Andrew Biswell talks to Dr Nathan Waddell, Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature at the Univerisity of Birmingham, about George Orwell and Dystopian Fiction. Find out more about Orwell's experiences in Burma, his inspiration for Nineteen Eighty-Four and Anthony Burgess's response to that novel among many other things in this wide-ranging discussion.
Information about Nathan Waddell's work, including his Reading Orwell project, can be found at drnjwaddell.co.uk
For more information about Anthony Burgess and to find out how you can support the work of the Burgess Foundation, visit anthonyburgess.org
