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Bestseller: 2: Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Five programmes about famous books and their authors.

'One day I saw a little boy driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path.... It struck me that.... men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.' An account of the writing of George Orwell's satire Animal Farm, and of the problem he met in persuading anyone to risk publishing it.

With Michael Spice as Orwell, Paul Webster as the Reader, Wilfred Harrison as Old Major

Contributors

Orwell:
Michael Spice
Reader:
Paul Webster
Old Major:
Wilfred Harrison
Other parts read by:
Geoffrey Banks
Other parts read by:
Peter Wheeler
Other parts read by:
Anthony Wingate
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Writer:
Bernard Crick
Producer/Director:
Stanley Williamson
Source: Radio Times

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