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Organised by the Orwell Trust and Birkbeck College, University of London
The Guardian has been investigating the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World for years, and broke the story about Milly Dowler’s phone this July. With the Leveson Inquiry and countless police investigations now ongoing, Alan Rusbridger lectures on ‘Hacking away at the truth: an investigation and its consequences’.
Links
- Alan Rusbridger: Hacking Away at the Truth (full text)
- Alan Rusbridger: After Murdoch’s excesses, let us seize the opportunity in the phone hacking inquiry (abridged, The Guardian)
- George Orwell: The Freedom of the Press – proposed preface to Animal Farm (1945, first published TLS, 1972)
- Orwell Lecture 2010: Ferdinand Mount – Orwell and the Oligarchs
- Orwell Lecture 2009: Hilary Mantel – “More like a castle than a realm” – Thomas Cromwell’s Radical England
- Orwell Lecture 2008: Andrew O’Hagan – The English
- George Orwell Memorial Lecture at Birkbeck College