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George Orwell returns to loom over BBC

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | 12:54 PM

A larger-than-life statue of the author and former BBC employee has been unveiled outside Broadcasting House in London

On the threshold of the building he once described as a cross between a girl’s boarding school and a lunatic asylum, on an appropriately grey and drizzly day, George Orwell has returned to the BBC, cigarette in hand.

On the wall behind him a suitable confrontational quote from Animal Farm has been inscribed: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

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