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Narrated by: Robert Maskell

Unabridged — 21 minutes

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Overview

Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25th June 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, in what was then British India. When Eric was one his mother took him to England and they settled at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

His education was at the nearby convent school before moving on to St Cyprian's School at Eastbourne and finally Eton where his academic studies were sidelined in favour of work on college publications.

University could not be achieved without a scholarship, which depended on good grades, and so ...