The Ecologist

I first came across him in the 1990s.

I was working at The Ecologist magazine in London.

Somehow I came across the essays of Wendell Berry and this farmer from Kentucky who had a totally different lifestyle to mine.

I was a guy from the suburbs of England working in London.

It's a great skill that she had.

And that became a landmark book.

Francis charted how the CIA backed the publication of books, magazines and exhibitions, which promoted Western values or derided the negative aspects of communism.

One prominent example is was the 1954 animated adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.