The Brahm Revel Interview
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Gaslit Nation presents an Instagram Live discussion recorded over the weekend with the acclaimed illustrator Brahm Revel, the artist of Mrs. Orwell. Brahm is based in Barcelona, where Eileen and Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), spent their honeymoon fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Eileen was holed up in the Hotel Continental, which still exists, where Stalin's agents searched her hotel room, stealing Orwell's Spain diaries and other papers, which are believed to be somewhere in Moscow to this day.
We're celebrating freedom fighters, past and present, tonight at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn at 7pm ET, for the launch of Mrs. Orwell. Patreon supporters get in free! Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman will be there, and so will the good folks of Razom for Ukraine and the Media and Democracy Project, co-sponsors of the event, because the Orwells would have been fans. So come and get a Mrs. Orwell tote bag, meet other Gaslit Nation listeners, and celebrate the defeat of Orban, MAGA, and the Kremlin in Hungary.
Enjoy this conversation with Brahm about the creative process that went into the making of Mrs. Orwell and why the story matters for us today, in an age that needs our own creativity and defiance.
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| 0:00.0 | Viva |
| 0:02.0 | Viva La Quinta Brigada |
| 0:15.0 | Viva La La La |
| 0:17.0 | Viva |
| 0:18.0 | Viva |
| 0:19.0 | Vida |
| 0:20.0 | Ruma That will cover of glories, |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, Carmel, ah, Carmel. |
| 0:26.6 | That will cover of glories, |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, Carmel, oh, Carmel. |
| 0:32.6 | Lucham against the moros, |
| 0:35.6 | Bumbal, lucham against the moros,ists Ah, Carmelah, carmela, Oh, Carmena Mercenaries and fascists Ah, Carmena, Oh, carmela, Oh, oh, Carmen. The |
| 0:56.0 | Eberra, |
| 0:57.0 | The Ebersite The Ebro, Rumbala, rumala, Rumbala, Rumbala, Rumbala, Rumbala, Rumbala, the other night the river cruised Oh, Carmel, Oh, Carmena. The other night the river cruz, Oh, Carmena, and to And the forces invasurrasur Rumbala, Oh, no, come. Our Our |
| 1:36.3 | Our opening song was |
| 1:42.1 | I, Katamatta |
| 1:42.9 | An old Spanish song In the time of Napoleon's wars. |
| 1:46.5 | Napoleon was the Putin for Hitler of his day. He terrorized Europe, brought back slavery to France, |
| 1:53.5 | and Europe united to defeat him as they must do today against Putin and Trump. The Hungarian victory this weekend, a vote for liberation from Russia, |
| 2:03.5 | marking the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution that shook the world. |
| 2:08.7 | It's a reminder that people want to be free. |
| 2:11.5 | We had agency. |
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