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Radio 4,2 mins

How the atomic bomb shaped Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Real George Orwell

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David Aaronovitch explores how the deployment of the atomic bomb during World War II played a crucial role in shaping the totalitarian world of Orwell's novel.

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