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4. Freedom from Fear

The Reith Lectures

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The Importance of Education in the UK

Evgeny Zamiatin's Mui, or We was the literary precursor of Orwell's 1984. He fell victim to Stalin's repression and purges in the late 1930s. The importance of having an educated, self-motivated and responsible population was actually at the heart of the BBC's creation.

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