George Bowling is a married insurance salesman.

Now middle-aged and, overweight, he looks back to his early years - from the end of the Boer War to the beginning of the First World War.

George Orwell's book was first published before war broke out in 1939.

Abridged by Ellin Stein.

Read by Tim McInnerny.

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020. Show less