Orwell Day 2022

Rebecca Solnit

Writing, a gesture of hope

American writer and activist Rebecca Solnit talks about the influence of George Orwell's work on her career as an essayist and reveals a new, more optimistic and hopeful look at the legacy of the writer of 1984.

Andrei Kureichik

Voices for Freedom

Journalist and playwright Andrei Kureichik talks with writer Marta Rebón about the repression and political persecution of Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime following the dramatized reading of his play Voices of New Belarus.

Orwell in Aragon

Salvador Trallero and Antonio Escartín

Salvador Trallero and Antonio Escartín, experts in the civil war and George Orwell's figure, travel through images of the places in Aragon where the British writer passed through and talk about the task of recovering his legacy.

Ali Smith

Making political writing into an art

Writer Ali Smith and filmmaker Sarah Wood talk with journalist Anna Guitart about their audiovisual piece Why We Write (2021), in which Smith pays tribute to the figure of Orwell and reflects on the shared vocation of making political writing into art.