47 “for being so ignorant” – J. B. Clark, BBC memo, January 19, 1943.
48 “inherently totalitarian” – Orwell, “As I Please”, April 7, 1944, CW XVI, 2450, p. 147.
49 “put on your thinking-cap” – Z. A. Bokhari memo to Orwell, September 23, 1941, CW XIII, 846, p. 12.
50 “university of the air” – George Orwell, The War Broadcasts, ed. W. J. West (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1985), p. 13.
51 “Few people are able” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.
52 “I suppose during every second” – “Voice”, August 11, 1942, CW XIII, 1373, p. 459.
53 “Crocuses now full out” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 27, 1942, CW XIII, 1064, p. 249.
54 “Its atmosphere is something” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.
55 “The thing that strikes one” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 18, 1942, CW XIII, 1231, p. 366.
56 “He was never quite sure” – Wadhams, p. 132.
57 “And now Comrade Orwell” – “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, CW XIII, 1270, p. 395.
58 “kept our propaganda” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, December 2, 1942, CW XIV, 1711, p. 214.
59 “We were listening to ‘Germany Calling’ ” – Wadhams, p. 128.
60 “I think he thought” – Arena: George Orwell.
61 “It doesn’t need the eye” – Orwell, “As One Non-Combatant to Another (A letter to ‘Obadiah Hornbooke’)”, Tribune, June 18, 1943, The Complete Works of George Orwell XV: Two Wasted Years 1943 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2138, p. 144.
62 “Nowadays” – Orwell, War-time Diary, April 1942, CW XIII, 1124, pp. 288–289.
63 “If George and I didn’t smoke so much” – Crick, p. 432.
64 “the typical figure” – Orwell, Macbeth adaptation, BBC Eastern Service, October 17, 1943, 2319, pp. 280–81.
65 “probably the most devastating” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.
66 “an extraordinarily clear prevision” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 427.