I looked to see if I could find anything asserting 1984 was about propaganda at BBC - nothing.
I found no interviews, no recordings - it seems what survives are his notebooks.
Can you describe the basis for the claim?
I found no interviews, no recordings - it seems what survives are his notebooks.
Can you describe the basis for the claim?
That page does not seem to support the claim that 1984 is about or relates to his time at BBC.
He wrote of it, and in some ways his writing on those times is better than his fiction.
Like if you take Zamyatin's "We", and make the main character a propagandist working for the government, you get 1984.