The summer of 1945 marked two landmark moments in British literary history: the premiere of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in July, and the publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm in August.
Though shaped by very different upbringings - Priestley, a grammar school boy from Bradford and Orwell, public school-educated and Eton-trained - both writers shared a fierce commitment to social justice and a belief in literature’s power to shape society.
In this timely and insightful conversation, Professor Jean Seaton, Official Historian of the BBC, explores the lives, legacies, and occasional frictions between two of the 20th century’s most influential literary voices.
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