Stephen Wadhams

The Orwell Tapes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More than 70 people who knew him well remember George Orwell, the enigmatic author of Animal Farm and 1984 two of the bestselling books of modern times.

Based on the acclaimed CBC Radio One program "The Orwell Tapes"

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was a brilliant, eccentric, complicated man. Born into a comfortable English family and educated at Eton, he was, at various times, a member of the colonial police force in Burma, a tramp, a dishwasher, a critic and journalist, a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, a teacher and a shopkeeper.

In the summer of 1983, radio producer Stephen Wadhams spent eight weeks crisscrossing Britain and Spain interviewing more than seventy people who had known Orwell for a five-hour CBC radio documentary broadcast on the first day of 1984. The result was a unique resource: more than fifty hours of interviews with a huge range of people, all of whom are now dead.

In this fascinating memoir, their recollections of Orwell are woven with biographical detail to produce a very human portrait of one of the greatest writers of our time. The list of contributors includes well-known names like Stephen Spender, Malcolm Muggeridge and Lord Astor, but also the unknown men and women who inspired much of Orwell's writing: the men who fought beside him in Spain; classmates at Eton; his first girlfriends and confidantes; childhood friends and family members, including his adopted son Richard.

In the weeks after Donald Trump's inauguration, 1984 with its critiques of propaganda and doublespeak hit number one on the Amazon bestseller lists. The Orwell Tapes brings its author to vivid life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leilah Nadir
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780995994652
• Artikelnr.: 72339292

Autorenporträt

Born in Weymouth, England, in 1945, Stephen Wadhams joined the BBC in 1968. He spent 18 months as a volunteer broadcaster in Malawi, Africa, before moving to Canada in 1974 to join the CBC Radio program "As it Happens." He then spent ten years as a documentary producer for "Sunday Morning," producing many high-profile projects in Canada, the US, Europe and Africa. From 1990 to his retirement in 2016, Wadhams created radio documentaries for the CBC, helping colleagues and more than 200 members of the public tell their stories on the programs "Outfront" and "Living out Loud."
Wadhams has won numerous Canadian and international awards, including a Prix Italia and a lifetime achievement award from Chicago's Third Coast Festival, which described him as a "masterful documentarian" who has "earned worldwide respect as an innovative thinker, continually interested in expanding the boundaries of storytelling." He was also in demand as a trainer and mentor for the CBC and other organizations, including the BBC, where he spent three months in 1999.
Wadhams and his wife now live in Victoria, British Columbia, where he follows his other life passion as a voice student at the Conservatory of Music and a member of the chorus of Pacific Opera Victoria.