The BBC is installing a bronze statue of one of its former employees: the Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist, George Orwell.

According to the Guardian, the author’s likeness—which has been in the works for several years—will be installed outside of the BBC’s London headquarters. The sculpture will depict Orwell holding a cigarette in an area frequented by BBC resident smokers; an inscription on the wall behind the statue will read, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

This is a bit of a controversial project to say the least, given the terms of Orwell’s 1943 resignation, when he wrote of his experience as a journalist on radio broadcasts to India: “I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result. I believe that in the present political situation the broadcasting of British propaganda to India is an almost hopeless task.”

In a diary entry, he also described the BBC as “something half-way between a girls’ school and a lunatic asylum,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The project had been in the works for several years before the City Council of Westminster approved it. Funders of the project include playwright Tom Stoppard and comedian Rowan Atkinson.

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