Animal Farm 2.0: The George Orwell sequel you didn’t know you needed

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Animal Farm is one of the 20th century’s most iconic books. So why make a sequel? Dorian Lynskey is joined by Adam Biles, literary director at Shakespeare and Company and author of the new book Beast of England, to explore how Manor Farm provides the perfect imaginary landscape for assessing our fraught and fractured politics. “Watching UK politics from afar gave the impression of a frog slowly being boiled.” “My feeling became: a plague on all of your houses.” “When you romanticise a group of people you flatten their experiences.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Book link: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/beasts-of-england Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn and Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker. You'll need to know on news and politics
1:06.9	seven days a week. I'm Dorian Linsky. My guest today is Adam Biles.
1:10.3	Adam is literary director at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, aka the best bookshop in the world.
1:15.0	And some of the books he stocks are his own.
1:17.0	He published his first novel Feeding Time in 2016, and his new one, Beast of England, is out now.
1:22.0	It's both a sequel to and a reimagining of
1:24.7	Georgia Wells' 1945 masterpiece Animal Farm using the Farmyard Allegory to comment on more recent
1:30.2	political developments. Hi Adam, thanks for coming in.
1:32.4	Thank you for having me. So So show me that all work was writing about Russian politics from England using an English
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