Statue of George Orwell a sculptural group in Sheffield. Statue of George Orwell A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in London. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with Orwell's words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", from an unused preface to "Animal Farm". The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, said of Orwell and the statue that "He reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" on a room
Nineteen Eighty-Four novel to the Broadway stage. Orwell sold the American stage rights to Sheldon, explaining that his basic goal with "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was imagining the consequences of Stalinist government ruling British society: ["Nineteen Eighty-Four"] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office. The statement "2 + 2 = 5", used to torment Winston Smith during his interrogation, was a communist party slogan