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1984 by George Orwell | Episode 1 |
The Audiobooks Podcast
The Hanging of a Prisoner of War
Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the park that evening. This happened about once a month and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamoured to be taken to see it. He took his leave of Mrs. Parsons and made for the door. But he had not gone six steps down the passage when something hit the back of his neck,. an agonisingly painful blow. It was as though a red hot wire had been jammed into him. The music from the telescreen had stopped. A clipped military voice was reading out with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new floating fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland
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