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  1. 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas

    Duration: 01:00

  2. How the atomic bomb shaped Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Duration: 02:47

  3. Preview clip of The Real George Orwell: Dreaming

    Duration: 00:59

  4. Joseph Millson on the Real George Orwell

    Duration: 00:56

  5. Orwell described 91热爆 in 1940s as 'an exceptionally badly run girls' boarding school'

    Duration: 00:44

  6. Reading of Orwell's memo to the Eastern Service Director

    Duration: 02:13

  7. Reading of Orwell's letter to Heppenstall describing life on Jura

    Duration: 02:06

  8. 'Radio gets under your skin...' Tamsin Greig on why she wanted to narrate Animal Farm

    Duration: 00:23

  9. Reading of Orwell's Resignation Letter

    Duration: 02:02

  10. 'He is a big miner from Sheffield in my mind.' Ralph Ineson on Boxer in Animal Farm

    Duration: 00:25

  11. 'The Revolution lasted for about an hour and a half'. Toby Jones on how Animal Farm inspired his schoolmates.

    Duration: 00:29

  12. Christopher Eccleston on the central human message of Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Duration: 01:28

  13. Tim Pigott-Smith on Orwell's "futuristic" Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Duration: 02:52

  14. Preview clip of Homage to Catalonia

    Duration: 01:27

  15. 'First he wanted to call himself X'. DJ Taylor on how Eric Blair chose George Orwell for his pen name.

    Duration: 01:28

  16. Who was the Real George Orwell? Biographer DJ Taylor speculates on the man himself

    Duration: 01:19