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The episode opens with a reading from the novel's famous opening passage, explicitly identified as 'George Orwell's novel, 1984, published in 1949'

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Mentioned alongside 1984 as 'two of the defining books of the 20th century' and discussed extensively as Orwell's political allegory about revolution

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Referenced as comparison for famous novel openings - '1984 from Pride and Prejudice or Tale of Two Cities as one of the most celebrated openings of an English novel'

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Referenced alongside Pride and Prejudice as having a famous opening and noted as having 'quite a political resonance'

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Introduced as the guest's book - 'whose book, George Orwell, English Rebel, is a brilliant study of Orwell as a writer of Englishness'

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Discussed as 'the book that then makes him' - Orwell's account of visiting the north of England during the Depression in early 1936

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Mentioned as a predecessor to Orwell's work - 'it's been done already. J.B. Priestley had done it, English Journey, a few years earlier'

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Described as coming out of Orwell's Spanish Civil War experience - 'out of that frenzy comes homage to Catalonia, which I think he always regarded as his greatest book'

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Referenced when discussing Orwell's discovery of northern England - 'It's not even the England of down and out in Paris and London'

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Referenced in discussion of Orwell's political writings during wartime - mentioned as containing his 'mystical faith' in the English people

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Referenced as 'Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones' memoir of post-war London' when discussing the atmosphere captured in 1984