h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello, I work for Ariel and needed to speak to someone who knows about this posting. I specifically want to know where the footnote to the origins of Room 101 came from -- it's footnote 1. I am doing some research about this topic for the newspaper and I have not been able to verify that Room 101 did indeed have anything to do with Orwell's time at the BBC. Please contact me.

Well I wrote the original Guide Entry here (in a different guise but I've lost my log in details for that account).

I cannot recall where I originally heard that Room 101 was associated with the BBC (most likely in whichever edition of 1984 I have - unfortunately the book is several hundreds of miles away so I cannot check).

However a quick Google manages to turn up
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/bbc/
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/04_april/01/skyline.shtml
and
http://www.uktv.co.uk/?uktv=standarditem.index&aID=528096

Perhaps the BBC press office would be the best good place to speak to in the first instance.