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Interview: Emma Larkin discusses her new book, "Finding George Orwell in Burma"
From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 20050719
Author:ROBERT SIEGEL, MELISSA BLOCK
ROBERT SIEGEL, MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
07-19-2005
Interview: Emma Larkin discusses her new book, "Finding George Orwell in Burma"
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
And I'm Melissa Block.
When Eric Arthur Blair was 19 years old and hadn't yet picked up his pen name of George Orwell, he went to the far reaches of the British Empire. He joined the Imperial Police Force in Burma. He'd spend five years there in the 1920s, as he put it, `five boring years ...
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