George Orwell: A Life in Pictures

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
Genre	Docudrama
Written by	Chris Durlacher Paul Whittington
Directed by	Chris Durlacher
Starring	Chris Langham Michael Fenton Stevens Tom Goodman-Hill
Narrated by	Barbara Flynn
Composer(s)	Daniel Pemberton
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jacquie Hughes Adam Kemp Emma Willis
Producer(s)	Chris Durlacher
Running time	90 minutes
Distributor	Wall to Wall
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two
Original airing	14 June 2003
Chronology
Related shows	Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes H G Wells: War with the World
External links
Production website

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell. Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.^[1]

Awards

International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 2004
- International Emmy for Best Arts Programme
Grierson Awards 2004
- Grierson Award for Best Documentary on the Arts

References

↑ Colin Marshall (March 9, 2012). "For 95 Minutes, the BBC Brings George Orwell to Life". Open Culture.

External links

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures at the Internet Movie Database

International Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts Programming

2002 — 2009	Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti (2003) George Orwell: A Life in Pictures (2004) Holocaust - A Musical Memorial Film from Auschwitz (2005) Knowledge is the Beginning (2006) Simon Schama's Power of Art (2007) Strictly Bolshoi (2008) The Mona Lisa Curse (2009)

2010 — present	The World According to Ion B. (2010) Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne (2011) Songs of War (2012) Hello?! Orchestra / Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (2013) The Exhibition (2014)