Speaker
- Michael Rosen (writer, former Children’s Laureate)
Details
This year’s Orwell Memorial Lecture was given by Michael Rosen, the writer, broadcaster and Children’s Laureate, at Birkbeck College. He chose as his subject ‘The Politics of Response: Orwell’s contribution to the questions of how we read and what reading is for’.
Links
- Michael Rosen: Orwell Lecture 2007 – The Politics of Response (full text)
- Gavin Freeguard: Orwell Lecture 2007 (blogpost)
- Orwell Lecture 2011: Alan Rusbridger (video)
- Orwell Lecture 2010: Ferdinand Mount (video)
- Orwell Lecture 2009: Hilary Mantel (video)
- Orwell Lecture 2008: Andrew O’Hagan (video)
- Birkbeck College: George Orwell lectures