I have rarely been on a train journey without thinking of his description, as his train pulled out of a town, of a young woman kneeling on flagstones in the snow trying to unblock a drain outside. Orwell’s account is by turns deeply affecting and funny. Phrases and images from George Orwell’s tale of working class life in 1930s Northern England have stayed with me since I first read The Road to Wigan Pier over twenty years ago. Simon discusses George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier – a book he found both engaging and at the same time, flawed. He was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Market Foundation. Simon Griffiths is a Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Ideologies in Oxford.
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