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72 - Nineteen Eighty-Four (with Andy Matthews and Peader Thomas)

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The Windstand - A Novel Review

"I knew it was a bad ending. When I first read this as a, what, 17 year old in year 12, I had no idea," says David Walliams. "The second half is like, very grim. And again, so well done that you feel awful." In the future, not a lot of gin. Heaps of petrol. So much petrol. Everything's electric. We got all this left over petrol. Let's drink it. No petrol generators running. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's a really depressing story, David. It's horrific stuff".

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