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b"By 1949, George Orwell was dying. He didn\\u2019t know it, but the next 12 months would be his final stand against totalitarianism. \\n\\nStuck in the Cranham Sanatorium in the Cotswolds, Orwell, real name Eric Blair, was attempting to get over the \\u2018white plague\\u2019 of tuberculosis, publish 1984, which he had completed by December 1948, and spread the readership of Animal Farm. \\n\\nHe would also cooperate with a new secretive organisation, The Information Research Department, and correspond with an agent operating for another unit from the secret world, The Pond. \\n\\nWith thanks to The Imperial War Museum, Paul Lashmar, Dorian Lynskey and Mark Stout. \\n\\nLashmar\\u2019s Spin, Spies and the Fourth Estate can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spin-Spies-Fourth-Estate-Lashmar/dp/1474443087/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1614502073&refinements=p_27%3APaul+Lashmar&s=books&sr=1-1\\n\\nLynskey\\u2019s Ministry of Truth can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ministry-Truth-Biography-George-Orwells/dp/1509890734/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RBKVCZKRPG2K&dchild=1&keywords=dorian+lynskey&qid=1614502154&s=books&sprefix=Dorian+Lynskey%2Cstripbooks%2C185&sr=1-1\\n\\nMusic credit: \\nScott Buckley\\u2019s Machina, Beautiful Oblivion and Ascension licenced under CC-BY 4.0\\n\\nAudio credits: \\nEmma Topping, Ash Steel, Norman Reddaway (interviewed by \\xa9The Imperial War Museum) and Christopher Hitchens reading Robert Conquest\\u2019s George Orwell (1969) poem \\n\\nThe Tech, Power and Media podcast looks at the intersection and relationships between technology, media and the power it creates, limits and changes. Hosted by Ian Silvera, editor of Future News https://www.news-future.com\\u200b\\u200b\\u200b\\n\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tpmpod\\u200b\\u200b\\n\\nResearch Resources\\n\\nThe National Archives\\u2019 FO 1110 series \\nHistory Notes from The Foreign and Commonwealth Office\\nReport of The Bloody Sunday Inquiry\\nBritain's Secret Propaganda War by Paul Lashmar and James Oliver\\nIn Celia\\u2019s Office by Robert Conquest for The Hoover Institute \\nOur Job Is To Make Life Worth Living (Complete Works S.) edited by Peter Davison\\nThe Orwell Archive at University College London \\nThe Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism at The University of Nottingham\\nTime To Explain by Christopher Mayhew \\nFree Agent: The Unseen War 1941\\u20131991 by Brian Crozier \\nA Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre\\nThe British Diplomatic Oral History Programme at Churchill College, Cambridge University\\nThe Oral History Programme at the Imperial War Museum, London \\nThe Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training at the Library of Congress \\nThe CIA Reading Room \\nThe Pond: Running Agents for State, War, and the CIA by Mark Stout \\nThe House of Commons\\u2019 Hansard Service for 13 January 1981\\nThe Margaret Thatcher Foundation Archive"