On 18 August 1941, Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. After a crash training course (the documents for which are reproduced here), he was appointed a Talks Producer responsible for features, talks & commentaries on the war, to be broadcast to India. He wrote at least 220 news commentaries for, & broadcast to, India & occupied Malaya & Indonesia, of which Orwell read fifty-six. This volume shows that formal censorship was not as great a problem as has been supposed, though it obviously occurred & Orwell's brushes with censors are shown in detail. Along with Columes 14 & 15, Volume 13 shows the enormous efforts he made to disseminate culture rather than crude propaganda. It is in this volume that the origins of ' Room 101' are to be found; it has examples of his first 'courses' for Indian university student
- the forerunner of the Open University; the first issue of his broadcast poetry magazine, ' Voice', & a nubmer of his own broadcasts, including ' The Re-discovery of Europe'. He continued to review, to write essays, & to contribute to Partisan Review & he was still active in the Home Guard.
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On 18 August 1941 Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. After a crash training course (the documents for which are reproduced here), he was appointed a Talks Producer responsible for features, talks, & commentaries on the war, to be broadcast to India. He wrote at least 220 news commentaries for, & broadcast to, India & occupied Malaya & Indonesia, of which Orwell read fifty-six. This volume shows that formal censorship was not as great a problem as has been supposed, though it obviously occurred & Orwell's brushes with censors are shown in detail. Along with Volumes XIV & XV, Volume XIII shows the enormous efforts he made to disseminate culture rather than crude propaganda. It is in this volume that the origins of ' Room 101' are to be found; it has examples of his first 'courses' for Indian university students
- the forerunner of the Open University; the first issue of his broadcast poetry magazine, ' Voice'; & a number of his own broadcasts, including ' The Re-discovery of Europe'. He continued to review, to write essays, & to contribute to Partisan Review & he was still active in the Home Guard.
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All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown ...

Meet Burt Hecker, aka Eckbert Attquiet, a 63 year old medieval re-enactor with a momentous nose, who dresses in tunics & drinks too much home-made mead. His treasured wife Kitty has died & their strange & beautiful relationship is now the stuff of history; he has sold all of his possessions & bought a one-way ticket to Europe, bent on rescuing his beloved son Tristan from the ...

At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty, young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching d-colletage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a guest on this occasion, & in due course the two young people were lovers, unbeknown to Clare's husb&. & if the Spaniard was at pains to cover their tracks, his beloved left evidence of adultery with gay abandon
- & all this in a university that was a forcing house of gossip & intrigue, a place where 'at every word a reputation dies'. This affaire between the canny Latin & the flighty English woman forms the central thread in a brilliantly wrought tapestry of Oxford life, at once affectionate in its insight & hilarious in its ironic portrayals of Senior Common Room worthies.
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On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator code-named Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had declined the Special Operations Executive firearms training because she did not want to kill anyone
- yet she landed in Brittany knowing that she had a 50 per cent chance of arrest, interrogation & torture by the Gestapo, & death
- which for captured agents could sometimes not come soon enough.

But the Nazis have to catch her first, & she has work to do in the meantime, together with a growing involvement with John Sutherl&, a British Commando serving alongside her. It is his voice that tells the story of the months that follow as he & Noor travel to Paris to join the Prosper network & participate in their own parts of the resistance. & as if escaping arrest & fighting the occupying forces is not enough, Sutherland has been told that there is a traitor in the network, & he must find out who it is before they are all betrayed. & yet, maybe London wants the betrayal...



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The triumphant finale to the Revolution at Sea series

It is 1777, & captain Isaac Biddlecomb, together with

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The triumphant finale to the Revolution at Sea series

It is 1777, & captain Isaac Biddlecomb, together with

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