The Real George Orwell Clips

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 BBC 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. Reading of Orwell's Resignation Letter

   Duration: 02:02

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

   Duration: 00:25

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

    Duration: 00:29

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

    Duration: 01:28

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

    Duration: 02:52

13. Preview clip of Homage to Catalonia

    Duration: 01:27

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

    Duration: 01:28

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

    Duration: 01:19