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The Real George Orwell: Essays and Journalism: Pleasure Spots

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George Orwell on the subject of pleasure.

Thoughts on horribly artificial theme parks excluding the natural world. Orwell’s non-fiction writing read by Clive Merrison.

A selection of Orwell's non-fiction. 

The author's thoughts on the post-war prospects for the English tourist trade, taken from a 1944 edition of Orwell's regular Tribune column, "As I Please". Before that, an essay written in 1946 from the same publication : Pleasure Spots, which takes as its subject the precursors of today's theme parks - horribly artificial places from which the natural world has been excluded.
 
Reader: Clive Merrison

Producer: David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.

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