Episode 2
George Bowling tells us how he got a job after the First World War thanks to a chance meeting. Read by Tim McInnerny.
George Bowling tells us how he got a job after the First World War after a chance meeting with an old army commander.
It seems he's headed for insurance.
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 last five of ten episodes abridged by Ellin Stein.
Read by Tim McInnerny
Producer: Clive Brill
A Brill production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2019
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