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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 2 Podcast 57 Precious Bane Pt II
Description: A Season 2 Podcast 57 The Precious Bane Part IIIn George Orwell’s first novel, Burmese Days, we are introduced to the protagonist John Flory, in the following way:“The first thing that one noticed in Flory was a hideous birthmark stretching in a ragged crescent down his left cheek, from the eye to the corner of the mouth. Seen from the left side his face had a battered, woebegone look, as though the birthmark had been a bruise--for it was a dark blue in colour. He was quite aware of its hideousness. And at all...