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"George Orwell" (11 results)
The non-fiction writing of George Orwell opens with his account of an execution in Burma in the 1920s. Read by Cliv...
Orwell's dramatisation of his tale of the corrupting effect of power is narrated by Tamsin Greig and features Nicky Henson, Toby ...
The truth about writing reviews for a living and English language oddities. Orwell's non-ficti...
The author attempts to reconcile his patriotism with his left-wing views. Orwell's non-fiction writi...
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.
Janice Galloway's story reimagines the time George Orwell spent on the island writing Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Corin Redgrave reads an abridged version of George Orwell 's tale of an omnipresent political state.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communist power in Europe, the Strand begins a serialisation ...
Rudolph Cartier's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's story about a man who tries to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives and wo...
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984, reimagined through dance by choreographer Jonathan Watkins for Northern Ballet.
The landmark allegory about hypocrisy and corruption of power. Unabridged and read by Roger Ringrose.
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