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The Common Touch

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Jack Common (1903-1968) A Newcastle-born writer. his work had the ' directness and aphoristic insight of a proletarian Hazlitt He was also compared with D. H. Law rence. and with George Orwell , his friend and ally in the quest for a genuine working-class literary form.
He never achieved the fame that this talent deserved, and the most lasting monument to him is an anonymous one-he was the model for the bust of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery.
Compiled and presented by Cliff Kitney
Producer MICK WEBB

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D. H. Law
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George Orwell
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Karl Marx
Presented By:
Cliff Kitney
Producer:
Mick Webb
Source: Radio Times

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