The War Broadcasts
336 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1987
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ISBN: 9780140189100
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 5 July 1995
Description
This volume, with its companian "The War Commentaries", re-creates the grim purposeful mood of Britain between Dunkirk and D-Day. The book brings together all the surviving BBC talks written and presented by Orwell during 1942 and 1943. Some of the talks are on sabotage, on rationing. Many are adaptations of plays or stories by H.G. Wells, Hans Anderson and Anatole France among others; assessments of writers who influenced Orwell, including Swift, Shaw and Oscar Wilde. A selection of the correspondence from several of the contributors to Orwell's programmes includes letters form E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, T.S. Eliot and Cyril Connolly.
