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T's and C's apply. This is a B.S. I in the world. I'm John Bachel worth Professor Peter Stansky of

so of Stamford University discussing his new book the socialist patriot George Orwell in war.

George Orwell is world famous solar system famous for two books 1984 in

Animal Farm. Before that however there was the evolution of a novelist and journalist

and an essayist and a book reviewer and an editor. The literary life as it was lived between the first war and the Cold War.

And right now we're in that period early on when George Orwell is come back from Spain, not disillusioned but lucky to have survived.

He's with Eileen, who is very good to him and inspirational in some instances because the animals in Animal Farm naming them and making

characters out of them that is Eileen's imagination at a little farmhouse they

lived in when they were first married, calling the pigs

and the chickens different names. But in any event, George Arwell, aka Eric Blair,

gets caught up in writing about the working class.

And professor, it is very revelatory that throughout his life he was keen on class.

He was resentful of and at the same time fascinated by it. And his Etonian

accent always gave him away when he did his research in down and out in Paris

and on the road to Wigan Pier.

I've never heard his voice. Is there a recording of his voice anywhere?

I don't think so. I mean you think there would be because he did all these broadcasts

during the Second World War which have been and most of them been published and you know

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