The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell

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🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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For the second of three episodes recorded at the Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by songwriter and activist Billy Bragg and journalist and critic Suzi Feay to talk about George Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. This special episode features audience participation on a scale never before heard on Backlisted - make sure you keep listening until the very end of the Q&A session... Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 0'00 - The Lion and The Unicorn by George Orwell *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to Backlisted the podcast that gives new life to old books.
0:28.0	We're here today huddled in the ruins of a once great civilization,
0:34.0	warming ourselves across the dying embers of the fire that was once the Port Elliott Festival.
0:40.0	The dreams of glad, confident, sunny mornings gone.
0:45.0	But we don't need sunny mornings for stories and ideas, do we?
0:50.0	No! Thank you.
0:52.0	I'm John Mitchinson, I'm the publisher of Unbound.
0:55.0	My name's Andy Miller. I am the author of the year of reading dangerously.
0:59.0	And we're very pleased to be joined on Batisted today to talk about the Lion and the
1:03.8	unicorn by George Orwell. Two guests. Our first guest is Susie Fay.
1:08.5	Round applause! That was spontaneous, wasn't it? This crowd is a hot crowd. Thank you very much.
1:20.5	Sousie Faye is an arts journalist, former literary editor of The Independent on Sunday.
1:26.0	She's currently the TV and radio critic for the FT.
1:29.0	She's associate editor of the London magazine, a member of the Authors Club, and head of the Critic Circle Books section.
1:35.4	So she knows about books.
1:37.3	She is an expert of the thought you, the public, no longer like. Susie, what is the best thing you've seen at the festival so far this year?
1:48.6	Everything has been fantastic.
1:49.6	I should mention two things briefly.
1:51.6	I went to see a talk on Alexander McQueen brilliant talk
1:55.4	Daphne Guinness his muse was there and she had the single most unsuitable set of
2:01.1	footwear for a festival I have ever seen, possibly not suitable for walking in at all,
2:06.6	and I waited the end to make sure she could actually get up and totter out.
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