BBC Radio 4’s Raiders of the Lost Archive explores the world of “audio archaeologists” and missing tapes
In a tape-filled attic, Roger Bickerton finds 94 instalments of Desert Island Discs.
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The mysterious life of Inez Holden
The novelist and former Bright Young Thing ably captured Britain in the early 20th century. Her work deserves to be…
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Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel – Audio Long Reads
What the 20th-century author teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.
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From the NS archive: Mr Blair and Mr Blair
23 October 2000: What the PM doesn’t have in common with George Orwell.
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George Orwell outside the whale
What the writer teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.
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What Winston Churchill and George Orwell had in common
A new book from Thomas E Ricks explores the similarities between two 20th century mavericks.
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