From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with John Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale,

about famed author George Orwell.

Nationally syndicated radio host, Larry Elder, joins us to discuss a film he is an executive

producer on Uncle Tom.

Colin Barnes from Hillsdale Psychology Department on Humanistic Psychology.

And we'll hear portions of a lecture from Michael Novak on Why We Love Sports.

First, we're joined now by John Jay Miller, director of Herbert H. Dow, the second program

in American journalism here at Hillsdale College, also still the national correspondent

for National Review, and his latest book, Reading Around, Journalism on Authors, Artists, and

ideas.

John, thanks for joining us.

Hi, Scott.

Thanks for having me on.

Wanted to spend some time with

you today talking about George Orwell, the author and writer. So tell us who was George Orwell. Why should

we care about his writing? George Orwell is a name we all know. We associate with a couple of novels,

primarily Animal Farm and 1984.

But for his entire life, he was basically a journalist. He wrote fiction, of course. He wanted to be a

novelist. And many of his early novels, and there are plenty of them, were not very successful.

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