#158: George Orwell

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✨ Learn English with AI Challenge Special Offer📆 Ends 23:59 Tuesday, 31st March---Find out more: https://dripl.ink/xKgjZ---Why do dogs understand us so well, and how did the "wild" wolf become man's closest companion? This episode tells the remarkable story of how a partnership ...  Show more

The vision of the future evoked in George Orwell’s last novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was so terrifying to its first readers that some claimed to be unable to sleep at night. When the book was adapted by the BBC for the new medium of television after Orwell’s death, millions became ...  Show more

Estoy seguro de que has leído o has oído hablar de 1984, uno de los libros más famosos del autor británico George Orwell.

Este autor fue a España a combatir en la guerra civil en el bando de los perdedores de los perdedores. En el episodio entenderás por qué.

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This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn’t – mean to be English. How did the English manage to resist fascism? How are the English going to defeat fascism? These were two different question ...  Show more

George Orwell is one of the most celebrated novelists, essayists, and journalists in modern British history.  Tom and Dominic are joined by Robert Colls, Professor Emeritus of History at De Montfort University, to discuss the life and legacy of the man who wrote Nineteen Eighty- ...  Show more