25 episodes
Reading Orwell Nathan Waddell
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A podcast featuring chapter-by-chapter and topic-led commentaries on George Orwell’s novels & non-fiction.
Aimed at school students & university undergraduates. Made by Dr Nathan Waddell, University of Birmingham, UK.
Text versions of all episodes available at https://drnjwaddell.co.uk/reading-orwell.
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25. A conversation with Professor David Dwan, University of Oxford
A conversation with Professor David Dwan about Animal Farm (1945) and the annotated edition of it he produced in 2021 for the Oxford World's Classics series.
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24. Thoughts on Nineteen Eighty-Four: Part III
The third and final instalment of a 3-part mini-series looking at Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in hour-long episodes, focusing on Part III of the book.
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23. Thoughts on Nineteen Eighty-Four: Part II
The second instalment of a 3-part mini-series looking at Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in hour-long episodes, focusing on Part II of the book.
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22. Thoughts on Nineteen Eighty-Four: Part I
The first instalment of a 3-part mini-series looking at Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in hour-long episodes, starting with Part I of the book.
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21. A conversation with Liam Knight, University of Birmingham
Today I talk to Liam Knight, a PhD student at the University of Birmingham working on a thesis addressing the question of 'endotextuality' in dystopian fiction. We talk about books within books and texts within texts, focusing on Orwell but with an eye on some other dystopian writers, including Margaret Atwood. In addition to his PhD research, Liam runs a brilliant GCSE revision resource, 'Dystopia Junkie', which you can find on YouTube.
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20. A conversation with Professor John Bowen, University of York
A conversation with Professor John Bowen, about his recent experience of editing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) for the Oxford World's Classics series.