This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Batchworth, Professor Peter Stansky of Stanford University,

discussing his new book, The Socialist Patriot, George Orwell in War. George Orwell is

World Famous, Solar System Famous for two books, 1984 in Animal Farm. Before that, however,

there was the evolution of a novelist and journalist and an essayist and a book reviewer and an editor.

The literary life, as it was lived between the first war and the Cold War. And right now,

we're in that period early on when George Orwell has come back from Spain, not dissolution,

but lucky to have survived. He's with Eileen, who is very good to him and inspirational in some

instances, because the animals in Animal Farm naming them and making characters out of them,

that is Eileen's imagination at a little farmhouse they lived in when they were first married,

calling the pigs and the chickens different names. But in any event,

George Orwell aka Eric Blair gets caught up in writing about the working class. And Professor,

it is very revelatory that throughout his life, he was keen on class. He was resentful of

and at the same time fascinated by it. And his Etonian accent always gave him away when he did

his research and down and out in Paris and on the road to Wigan Pier. I've never heard his voice.

Is there a recording of his voice anywhere?

I don't think so. I mean, you think there would be because he did all these broadcasts during

the Second World War, and most of them in Publish. And there's the great multi-volume edition of Orwell

and edited by the just recently deceased Peter Davison, which we know is a treasure trove.

But as far as I know, I may be wrong. I don't think I've ever heard his voice.

But it did give him away from the working class. Did they resend him when they heard

realize that he was that Etonian?

No, no, no. I think actually there was sympathetic. I think I have a feeling that maybe he says

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