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Conversations from London on literature and dictatorship. Host: Roland Elliott Brown
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Orwellians is hosted by Roland Elliott Brown. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Lana Estemirova - Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me" (15 October 2026, 77 minutes), "DJ Taylor - Tolkien and Orwell, Two Visions of Tyranny" (24 September 2026, 63 minutes), and "Joby Warrick - The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist" (10 September 2026, 63 minutes).
The Orwellians publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 64 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for The Orwellians is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Orwellians requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Orwellians's contact route on record: verified email.
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Roland Elliott Brown hosts The Orwellians, an arts podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #18
Lana Estemirova grew up in Chechnya, where she experienced two wars with Russia. She has worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian and The Moscow Times, and presented the podcast The Trouble with the Truth in...
Episode #17
D.J. Taylor is a prolific author of fiction and writing on literature, including four books on George Orwell, among them Orwell: The New Life and, most recently Who Is Big Brother? A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. His...
Episode #16
Joby Warrick is a two-time Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, and was the national security correspondent for The Washington Post from 1996 to 2025. He is the author of The Black Flags (about the rise of ISIS), Triple...
Episode #15
Journalist and historian Victor Sebestyen discusses his new book, Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy
Episode #14
Following the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel defeated its Arab neighbours, the Soviet Bloc, already strongly aligned with the Arab governments, tilted more sharply in favour of Palestinian organisations, particularly...
Episode #13
Petr Petrenko is a lawyer from St. Petersburg and an anti-war campaigner who organises public events in London in support of political prisoners in Russia. He holds an LLM in Human Rights Law from Queen Mary University...
Episode #12
Howard Amos discusses his book "Russia Starts Here," a travelogue that illuminates Russia's Pskov region from its mediaeval history to the war in Ukraine. He talks about returning to Russia to complete his book in 2023...
Episode #11
Sean Wiswesser, a retired CIA senior operations officer, discusses his book on Russian intelligence tactics from the Cold War to the 21st century.
Episode #11
Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Lucy Ash discusses her book The Baton and The Cross, which combines history and reportage to tell the story of church-state relations in Russia from ancient times to the war in...
Episode #9
Marc Bennetts, a correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times, was forced to leave Russia in 2022, after living in the country for 25 years. His new book The Descent is a visceral memoir of his journalistic experiences...
Episode #8
Pavel Otdelnov is a Russian artist who moved to London from Moscow in 2022. He works in various media and is best known for his projects about his hometown--the industrial city of Dzerzhinsk--and for his powerful visual...
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Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan are investigative journalists who focus on on the Russian intelligence agencies. They are the co-founders of agentura.ru and are now senior fellows at the Centre for European Policy...
Episode #6
Lawyer and human rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz discusses the massacres by Iranian security forces that killed thousands--maybe tens of thousands--of Iranian protesters this January, as well as the US and Israeli...
Episode #5
Andrei Kolesnikov discusses his book, The Closing of the Russian Mind: How Putin's Ideology Took the Nation Hostage. Andrei is a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Novaya Gazeta, and New Times. Previously, Andrei was a...
Episode #5
Filip Kovacevic is an intelligence historian, an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and Global Studies at the University of San Francisco, and the author of KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in...
Episode #4
Journalist James Rodgers discusses his new book, "The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin", which is about Russia's re-emergence as a military power in the decades since the end of...
Episode #3
Author Masha Karp discusses her book, "George Orwell and Russia." Masha is the editor of the Orwell Society Journal and a board member of the Orwell Society. In addition to writing "George Orwell and Russia" in English...
Episode #2
Playwright and director Peter Sturm discusses his London-based production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Dream of a Ridiculous Man," which is performed by actor Tom Larkin. The genre-bending story, which has aspects of gothic...
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Senior Fellow, Democratic Resilience, Center for European Pol, Agentura.ru
lawyer and human rights activist, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Macdonald-Laurier Institute
war historian and author of several books about drones, including Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know, City St George's, University of London
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