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Great Lives: George Orwell

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7/10. Civil-rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti has chosen to talk to Humphrey Carpenter about the man who invented "Big Brother" and wrote the anti-Stalinist fable Animal Farm. But George Orwell also defended the saturation bombing of German cities and contributed names to a government blacklist of suspected Communists. As his biographer DJ Taylor points out, Orwell was as complicated in his politics as he was in his love-life.

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Presenter:
Humphrey Carpenter
Guest:
Shami Chakrabarti
Producer:
Peter Everett
Source: Radio Times

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