The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop

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This lecture was given on Tuesday 15th November 2016
The Orwell Lecture was established by Professor Sir Bernard Crick - founder of the Orwell Prize - and has been held annually since 1989. Originally held at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Sheffield, the Lecture is now held at University College London each autumn. The Orwell Prize runs the Orwell Lecture.
Ian Hislop is a writer, editor and broadcaster. He was educated at Ardingly College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He has been editor of Private Eye since 1986. He is probably best known for his role as a regular team captain on the BBC show Have I Got News for You.
He joined Private Eye in 1981, and became editor in 1986. He has appeared on BBC Question Time, written and presented documentaries for television and radio about various subjects including the History of Tax, female hymn writers, Dr Beeching, Victorian Philanthropists, the First World War, and The Stiff Upper Lip. In 2016 he presented a documentary on Victorian Benefits: Workers or Shirkers. He co-wrote a dramatisation of The Wipers Times with Nick Newman, which was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Single Drama of 2014, and won the Best Single Drama Award in Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, 2014. In 2016, he and Nick Newman wrote the critically acclaimed 2016 Radio 4 comedy drama Trial By Laughter.
Ian has received numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award in 1991 and a British Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Comedy Awards 2011 for Have I Got News for You, Editors’ Editor, British Society of Magazine Editors in 1991; Magazine of the Year, What the Papers Say in 1991; Editor of the Year, British Society of Magazine Editors, in 1998; Channel 4 Political Awards, for Political Satire in 2004; and a Channel 4 Political Award, for Political Comedy in 2006, A Voice of the Listener and Viewer Award for Excellence in Broadcasting 2009, Political Studies Association. Diamond Jubilee Award. Best Political Satire, 2010, a Liberty Human Rights Award for Private Eye in 2011 and Trip Advisors Travellers’ Choice in 2012. Have I Got News For You won a BAFTA in 2016 for Best Comedy Programme.

[@susanelainesanner]

Were it not for KZbin, I might never had heard of Ian Hislop. Born - by no fault of my own - in the U.S., I am so impressed with Mr. Hislop and with his seemingly tireless work toward a world of light and sight. Thank you, UCLTV and The Orwell Foundation for this timely presentation. It is 3 August 2023, and Ian Hislop's observations and thinking apply every day, as do those of George Orwell. Thank you, Ian Hislop.

[@nickblackshaw9660]

If you search their names, there's a brilliant conversation between Ian Hislop and Jon Stewart on KZbin.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop 20.12.23 not the right to be decent, then? damn!!!!! wrong lecture...where is this? where am i? a hospital? you put decent people in hospital due to their innate desire to shout: no war!! down with this...and that. oh, dissent. i think Hislop took the Orwellian line, first class, not travelling with those plebs. here here!!! say i. and at least his mate "didn't give him one". what a relief...... as we see on his deathbed old Hislop will produce a list of pointless monikers naming names, damming decent dissenters. like Hitler...Mussolini...Lenin did begore him. it was the man with the suits fault. so says the glorious leader last seen looking distressed, bedecked in woolly jumper and faded denim................

[@JJONNYREPP]

Comments on ‘The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop’ 0447am 27.12.23 wow he's american? i thought he was bornin scotland...?

[@TariqMehmood-pw4zo]

Hislop does honour to Orwell with humour. Thank you UCLTV

[@bowie12]

In this day and age of technology they can't get a mic were we can hear the questions being asked.

[@DrewKF]

...or an audio feed to both the left and right channels. I'm surprised the footage is even the right way up.

[@thomasbriscoe2357]

My left ear loved this.

[@John.S92]

Your left ear.. as in only having headphones/earphone over one ear? (Just random curiosity as that's what I most often do, to be able to hear my surroundings and such)

[@lesley599]

wonderful , many thanks :)

[@powernoid]

I listen to lectures/talks/podcasts while I work with my right earphone only (the left has broken). I can't hear anything in this video. What's the deal?

[@Bedrinonen]

there's no sound coming through the right speaker on my functional headphones, same problem with the video uploaded by UCLTV

[@slickwillywize]

God I miss the Hitch

[@Scias]

52:09 good summary of campus

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop 20.12.23 from who or whom, specifically, private eye spring re:the music hall. the more they interacted with the audience the weaker ig became. robey?

[@willspat922]

I just spent 300 pounds on my new headphones... and the right one doesn't work... So I just threw them away... what a waste

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop 20.12.23 can anyone recall what it is you told me to say?

[@raystephens1142]

Oh no…

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@raystephens1142 Comments on ‘The Orwell Lecture 2016: Ian Hislop’ 0443am 27.12.23 are we convinced about hislop.... is he an old con merchant like all the old hacks of fleet street before him: purveyors of their own brand of whisky-sodden doggerel masking as prescient wit and/or insight... or are we really tired of all this old guff which might have passed for amusing once over but which enforced multi culturalism has seen fit to obscure with mightier topics to contend with such as...................................................................................................................................................p.s anyhow what did happen to the publication the listener? and what does punch read like these days? or private eye for that matter...

[@DrewKF]

UCLTV: please put on your headphones and consider why this may not be the most professional of productions... Why are you not bothered by this? Look at (and listen to) the content you've been given to work with; what are you playing at?! You're UCL, ffs...

[@joehiggs100]

I agree, shameful. It often happens with Uni productions, big cutbacks over the years in the technical staff, no co-operation between departments, at least we experienced it as he did, couldn't hear the questions Mr Hislop kept looking at his watch...His enemies will no doubt check up on his fee, if there was one.

[@williamchick6649]

@@joehiggs100 Yes I know what you mean I worked in education as a technician in the resources department they don’t exist anymore or if they do it’s one person with a screwdriver And a mop.

[@vins6036]

I wish people would check their upload before uploading such a bad sound quality.

[@BenignIndividual]

The Right to hear sound ( the Left too)

[@username1235400]

🤣

[@kbeetles]

this is so sad. Orwell is turning in his grave.

[@susanelainesanner]

Fear not, @kbeetles. We will each and all someday turn in our graves. No one is immune, no one is superior.

[@SkyDog-hh9ze]

It really doses say something, when the political satirist/comedians are more clever than the politicians who are in power! Then again they all went to the same schools, would-be politicians must have been at the back tossing it off, or should that be tossing a toff off?

[@granthurlburt4062]

I think this has often been the case. Being popular with an electorate, half of whom are below average intelligence, and having the morals to SOMETIMES lie, make compromises, in some cases backstab and many cases give backrubs (at least) are what you often need to do to be a successful politician, whereas intelligence and honesty and not fearing to offend are necessary for comedians. And being off-the-cuff witty helps comedians whereas such remarks are gleefully and deliberated quoted out of context by the opposition and media.