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Orwell discovers that it is not the lack of money or the hunger that dispirits him most, but the boredom that goes hand in hand with poverty.

Orwell discovers that it's not the lack of money or the hunger that dispirits him most, but the boredom that goes hand in hand with poverty. And he rails against a system which he feels forces a man to waste his energy pointlessly, when he could put it to better use.

Read by Joseph Millson
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for 91热爆 Radio 4.

15 minutes

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Fri 8 Feb 2013 22:45
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