This biographical program discusses the life of George Orwell as an English novelist, essayist and critic. Born in India, where his father was in the civil service, he later won a scholarship to Eton, but was financially unable to move on to Oxford and Cambridge. He spent five years with the Imperial Police in Burma, which inspired Burmese Days, an attack on British Imperialism. Orwell's other works include Homage to Catalonia, which expresses his disillusionment during the Spanish Civil War, and Animal Farm and 1984, two of his greatest novels that express his opposition to totalitarianism.