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Animal Farm 2.0: The George Orwell sequel you didn’t know you needed
Season 1
Episode 1090
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
Animal Farm is one of the 20th century’s most iconic books. So why make a sequel? Dorian Lynskey is joined by Adam Biles, literary director at Shakespeare and Company and author of the new book Beast of England, to explore how Manor Farm provides the perfect imaginary landscape for assessing our fraught and fractured politics.
- “Watching UK politics from afar gave the impression of a frog slowly being boiled.”
- “My feeling became: a plague on all of your houses.”
- “When you romanticise a group of people you flatten their experiences.”
Book link: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/beasts-of-england
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Robin Leeburn and Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
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