Homage To Catalonia
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Homage To Catalonia
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Narrated by:
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Joseph Millton
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By:
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George Orwell
About this listen
George Orwell's classic account of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. Produced by Kate McAll.
In 1936 Eric and Eileen Blair were making ends meet by running a small village shop in Wallington and growing vegetables. Eric had recently sent 'The Road to Wigan Pier' to Victor Gollancz, hoping it would be published. But then news came from Spain that Franco's Nationalists had risen up against the elected Republican government. In this autobiographical account, Eric decides to go to Spain - not just to record the struggle but to fight the Fascists. He joined a badly organised and ill equipped militia, armed with dud bombs and rusty guns. It was a decision that would nearly cost him his life, and produce one of the most vivid accounts of the Spanish Civil War.
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Only let down was the narrator for Eillen (George’s wife) - such an irritating voice and boxed up standard of English speech.
A lot of English women put on that way of speaking when in public abroad, but that is not the way English women speak among their friends and family - specially with their partners. The speech tries to sell an idea of purety and sensibility of English women, which in reality does not exist.
England went to war just to access heroin (Opium War). These modern times see England as the biggest consumer of cocaine and one of the worst world rates of alcoholism among women. Still, they keep on selling “the accent” as a way to disguise their true unpleasant and monolingual selves.
Interesting story / wife narrator irritating voice
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