Episode 1
George Bowling, an overweight, married, middle-aged insurance salesman surveys his life. Read by Tim McInnerny.
An overweight, married, middle-aged insurance salesman surveys his life while reflecting on the country he finds himself living in.
George Orwell's novel - written in 1939 - was published just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
It offers premonitions of the impending conflict with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian-era childhood at the same time as taking a rather dim view of capitalism and its effects on the best of rural England.
The reviews were among the best that Orwell had received for a novel. It sold 3,000 copies - a considerable improvement on the response to his previous works.
Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Ellin Stein.
Read by Tim McInnerny.
Producer: Clive Brill
A Brill production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.
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