George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

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Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, published before World War II and predicting that conflict. It is written in the first person, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist, telling the reader his life story. 

The social and material changes experienced by Bowling since childhood make his past seem as distant as the biblical character Og, King of Bashan, whom he remembers from Sundays at church. A news-poster about the contemporary King Zog of Albania, along with 'some sound in the traffic or the smell of horse dung or something' triggers the connection in Bowling's mind and his subsequent 'trip down memory lane'. Orwell's writing tends to show a real relish for pessimism and squalor; nevertheless, Bowling expresses a nostalgic melancholy of some tenderness. 

George Orwell - '1984'

WAR IS PEACE, 

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, 

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 

CELEBRATION

IS MANDATORY

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“1984” follows the life of Winston Smith as he struggles to conform. We get a first-hand look at the fear and distrust that rules his every thought and action. Reading “1984" will definitely help you to appreciate your own situation, no matter how bad it may seem. Big Brother is watching!

NARRATOR: Frank Muller is one of my very favorite audiobook narrators, and a perfect fit for “1984.” His grit and solemnity serve to augment the funerary feel of the audiobook.

Yeah whatever that dork said, now get back to your drab robotic lives spent watching Channel 4's Big Brother with four CCTV cameras installed in the corners of your living room while a giggling David Cameron watches you picking your nose.


In fact, I'm gonna go ahead and put this one down in the Archive as Factual...

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BBC WS - Your World: Down and Out in Paris and London

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With a fierce debate raging across Europe over public finances, this documentary has gone back to basics to compare conditions for the poor today with life before the introduction of the welfare state.

We've re-traced the steps of the author George Orwell who, in 1929, stepped from his own life of privilege into a battle against dirt and hunger, for his work published as Down and Out in Paris and London.

When he lived in France, Orwell was often starving and desperate for money, but when he crossed the Channel to seek his fortune in Britain, the novelist lived the life of those who'd fallen even lower - he became a tramp on London's streets.

This of course, was more than 80 years ago - on the eve of the Great Depression - yet, as Emma Jane Kirby found out, as Europe tries to fend off another financial crisis, it's still very possible to follow Orwell's footsteps.

[BBC Radio 4] - George Orwell - 'Shooting An Elephant'

Look at that man...

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George Orwell's tale about colonial officialdom in Burma, and the importance of keeping face.


Produced by Martin Jarvis
Broadcast July 25, 2010