Reply from Orwell to ALC Bullock

This letter is George Orwell's reply to ALC Bullock's invitation to talk about social change in Britain on the European Service. He makes it quite clear that despite the demands of his job his first commitment is always to the truth.

This is a reply to this letter.

Orwell had tried to join the army in 1941, but was rejected on the grounds of his ill health. Instead, he became a member of the Home Guard, hoping - somewhat optimistically - that it could evolve into a Catalan-style revolutionary militia. His time working at the BBC has been described by biographer Bernard Crick as 'a period of painful underemployment'.