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PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death

Quillette, Toby Young

20 Jan 2020 · 1 min read

Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in the Irish Independent here.

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