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4 Extra Debut. The non-fiction writing of George Orwell opens with his account of an execution in Burma in the 1920s. Read by Clive Merrison.

Although most famous for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell was also a prolific essayist and journalist.

A selection of Orwell's non-fiction writing begins with the powerful essay, A Hanging, Orwell's account of an execution that he attended while serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma during the 1920's:

'It is curious, but til that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man.'

Reader: Clive Merrison

Producer: David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.

15 minutes

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Tue 28 Jan 202002:45
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