File:George Orwell. Someone went outside for a smoke (29113173347).jpg
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Statue of George Orwell outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London W1. Near Hallam Street. The sculptor is Martin Jennings. (who also made statues of the poets John Betjeman in St Pancras Station, London, and Philip Larkin in Paragon Station, Hull). On a BBC webpage <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41886208" rel="nofollow">Martin Jennings is quoted</a>: "... it seemed to me that Orwell was the last person to be on a plinth. So I have made him stoop rather to the viewer - so perhaps it's more that he's on a soapbox, engaging an audience." According to the website, "The location where Orwell is placed has been an unofficial smokers' corner ever since Broadcasting House was extended in 2013. So it's appropriate that Jennings' Orwell has a roll-up in one hand. He's also given the tall, gangling, slightly cadaverous writer ill-fitting clothes and cabbage-patch hair which he thinks were characteristic." [Martin Jennings says: "... the placing also seemed to demand words on the wall behind Orwell: it would have seemed incomplete otherwise. In the end Ben Whitaker came up with the right choice." _______________________________ § Photo on Flickr by Roger Andrews of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/f2_8/2865835211/">Martin Jennings' sculpture of John Betjeman</a>. § The Philip Larkin Society posted two short videos (hosted on YouTube). ● Martin Jennings' <a href="http://philiplarkin.com/larkin_statue/" rel="nofollow">visit to Hull Paragon on Friday 14 May 2010</a>. ● In his studio <a href="http://philiplarkin.com/larkin_statue/" rel="nofollow">talking about the Philip Larkin statue</a>. |
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| Author | Alan Stanton |
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