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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: The Nature Behind Orwell’s Politics

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

George Orwell was a keen gardener, but did his love of nature influence his politics? Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses planted at his Hertfordshire cottage, writer Rebecca Solnit talks to Dorian Lynskey about her new book Orwell’s Roses, which looks at how Orwell’s involvement with plants was a catalyst for his work as a writer and antifascist. “When I was young non-fiction was not treated as artwork… Orwell provided a great model for essayism” “Animal farm is a book that Orwell couldn’t have written if he wasn’t aware of their behaviours” “I found 1984 very different after discovering Orwell the gardener, Orwell the cheerful even” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I'm Dorian Linsky. My guest today is the award-winning author of many books

1:13.7

including Wonder Lust, The Far Away Nearby, Recollections of my non-existence,

1:17.5

and Men Explain Things to Me. She has also written for publications such as Harpers,

1:21.3

The Guardian and the London Review of Books.

1:23.4

Her latest book, All-Wells- Roses, is as you'd expect about George Orwell and Roses,

1:27.7

but also Englishness, colonialism, coal mining, labour activism, Stalinism, and

1:32.1

aesthetics, among other things.

1:34.0

Rebecca Solnet, thanks for joining me.

1:35.9

My pleasure.

1:37.9

So you write towards the beginning of the book,

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