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George Orwell's attempts to tell the terrible truth about writing

The truth about writing reviews for a living and English language oddities. Orwell’s non-fiction writing read by Clive Merrison.

A selection of familiar and unfamiliar non-fiction pieces by the author of Animal Farm. 

Confessions of a Book Reviewer attempts to tell the terrible truth about writing reviews for a living while one of Orwell's As I Please columns tackles the oddities of the English language.
 
Reader: Clive Merrison
 
Producer: David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.

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