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Orwell on Jura

BBC One
on BBC One London

A film written by Alan Plater
Starring Ronald Pickup as George Orwell

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.

A BBC/TPI co-production
BBC Scotland

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Plater
Film Editor:
Robert Burnett
Designer:
Campbell Gordon
Photography:
Dick Johnstone
Film Sound:
Peter Brill.
Producer:
Norman McCandlish
Director:
John Glenister
George Orwell:
Ronald Pickup
Avril Blair:
Fiona Walker
Richard Rees:
David Swift
Bill Dunn:
Kit Thacker
Margaret Fletcher:
Lucinda Gane
Donald Darroch:
Bill Riddoch
Shopkeeper:
Elleen McCallum
Susan Watson:
Melanie Parr
Richard Blair (age 2):
Graeme Rozga
Richard Blair (age 13):
Ross Rozga
Henry Dakin:
Robin Davies
Jane Dakin:
Wendy Marsh
Lucy Dakin:
Sally Kinghorn
Doctor:
Edward Gray
Source: Radio Times

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