Animal Farm and Other Allegories

Today’s episode is a conversation with the American historian Gary Gerstle about this week’s US midterm elections to explore whether we have reached another turning point in American history. How do the results of these elections compare to previous midterm repudiations of sittin ...  Show more

Today’s episode in our series about the challenges facing universities looks at what might be the most direct threat of all: can they still fulfil their function if AI can write better essays than the students? David talks to political philosopher and university teacher Paul Saga ...  Show more

The novel Animal Farm was an allegory about the dangers of Soviet communism and of the communist leader Joseph Stalin. It was first published shortly after the end of World War Two, as the Cold War was just beginning. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to Orwell's adopted son, Rich ...  Show more

Old Man Stalin Had A Farm...E-I-E-I-O....What happens when you mix the Russian Revolution with a bunch of farm animals and (more than a dash) of dystopian bummers? George Orwell's Animal Farm! Come listen to us learn the joys of rewriting history, selling your f ...

Animal Farm and 1984