George Orwell (TRIH ep 208)
1937 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Robert Coles to discuss the life, politics and literary legacy of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). The conversation follows Orwell from his imperial birth in India and upbringing in rural England, through Eton and service in the Burma police, to his essay-writing and 1930s reportage (notably The Road to Wigan Pier). They examine Orwell's experience in the Spanish Civil War and its catalytic effect on his anti‑Stalinism and subs...
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- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)