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Start the Week: Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell

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06/11/2017

Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell

Andrew Marr with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman.

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses empire and the changing world order with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman.

Andrew Marr discusses the work of Joseph Conrad with his biographer Maya Jasanoff. Conrad wrote about the underbelly of colonialism, terrorism, immigration and isolation and Jasanoff looks at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of his life and work. While Conrad's Nostromo reflected the changing world order with the emerging dominance of the US and global capitalism, the FT columnist Gideon Rachman looks at the decline of the West amidst the growing power of the East, as well as reflecting on Britain's imperial amnesia. A young George Orwell was also part of the British colonial system in its slow death throes in Burma and the academic Robert Colls explores how these experiences shaped his later work. Ishion Hutchinson has been called a post-colonial poet and his latest collection is haunted by Jamaica's fractured past.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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