Broadcaster to commemorate former employee after initially rejecting plan, reputedly because he was too leftwing
A gaunt figure, cigarette in hand, bending forward with a combative look to engage any passerby in argument, will soon take up position among the fellow smokers lurking outside the new main entrance of the BBC headquarters in London.
On the wall near the new full-length bronze statue of George Orwell, being created by the sculptor Martin Jennings, his provocative declaration will be 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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