Red Skies - Eastern Angles

Red Skies features two of Suffolk’s most famous residents, George Orwell and Arthur Ransome, and asks what would have happened if they had met? It starts in Southwold Harbour, where Orwell’s father was dying and Ransome, along with his wife Evgenia, was sailing out of Pin Mill. Orwell is about to write Animal Farm and is intrigued that Ransome is married to the former secretary of Russia’s revolutionary leader, Trotsky. With Orwell’s suspicion of spies and Ransome’s inability to explain how they got out of Russia, sparks could fly...