Afternoon Reading | Jura: Writers in Residence: Almost 1948

Duration: 13'40''

Synopsis

Janice Galloway's story reimagines the time George Orwell spent on the island writing Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Further Information
Other Archive resources
Nineteen Eighty-Four | BBC One | 1983

Orwell on Jura

This prog is a factual drama, entirely on film, written by Alan Plater, about the three years which George Orwell spent on the Isle of Jura writing 1984.
Nineteen Eighty-Four | BBC Four | 2016

Northern Ballet: 1984 (2016)

George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984, reimagined through dance by choreographer Jonathan Watkins for Northern Ballet.