The war broadcasts
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The war broadcasts
（Penguin twentieth-century classics）
Penguin, 1987, c1985
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First published by Duckworth and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985
Description and Table of Contents
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 political: on sabotage, on rationing. Many are literary: 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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: money and guns
- British rations and the submarine war
- the meaning of sabotage
- "Voice", a poetry magazine edited by George Orwell
- story by five authors - George Orwell, L.A.G. Strong, Inez Holden, Martin Armstrong and E.M. Forster
- Jonathan Swift - an imaginary interview
- Edmund Blunden
- Bernar dshaw
- Jack London
- english poetry since 1900
- "Crainquebille" by anatole France, adapted by George Orwell
- "A slip under the Microscope" by H.G. Wells, adapted by George Orwell
- "Macbeth", a commentary by George Orwell
- "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Andersen, adapted by George Orwell
- "Lady Windermere's Fan" a commentary by George Orwell. Part 2 Letters. Appendices: censorship at the BBC in wartime
- Indian Section programmes produced by Orwell
- the principles of Axis and Allied propaganda
- Kingsley Martin and the BBC.
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