AudioGeorge Orwell Celebration

BBC Radio 4 have added broadcast dates for the first 6 episodes of Down and Out in Paris and London, narrated by Joseph. It is a 10 part adaptation, which will be broadcast daily from 28th January. Episode 1 starts at 10.45pm.

Earlier that day Burma is broadcast at 2.15pm. I will put together a full broadcast list for all Joseph's upcoming radio shows at the end of the week.

The Radio 4 website for The Real George Orwell celebrations have uploaded a preview clip of Homage to Catalonia, with Joseph as Eric Blair. The episode will broadcast on 27th January.

Broadcast details for Dreaming, the second of four plays about the life of George Orwell, have been published by the BBC Press Office. It will broadcast on 4th Feb 2013 from 2.15 - 3pm.

The second of four plays featuring episodes in the life of Eric Blair. In September 1938, Eric and Eileen Blair leave London for Marrakech. He is hoping that the climate will be good for his health, and that he will be able to complete Coming Up for Air, a novel that examines, among other things, the nature of England. But the bruising reception he received following the publication of Homage To Catalonia is troubling Eric and both he and Eileen are still feeling guilty about the fate of one of their Spanish Civil War comrades, Georges Kopp. Written by Mike Walker.

The BBC Press Office has shared details of the second part of The Real George Orwell - Burma, in which Joseph plays Eric Blair. It will broadcast from 2.15 - 3pm on Monday 28th January 2013.

After an undistinguished academic career at Eton, Eric leaves in December 1921. Unlike most of his friends, his parents can't afford to send him to university. When the girl he hopes to marry rejects him, he sets sail for Burma to join the colonial police. His experiences in Burma will affect him profoundly. They will give him material for essays such as 'A Hanging' and 'Shooting An Elephant', and his first novel, 'Burmese Days' - and they will begin to shape his political thinking. When he rejects the Empire and returns to England, Blair begins to spend more and more time with the poor.

The BBC Radio 4 celebration of George Orwell begins on Sunday 27th January at 3pm with Joseph playing Eric Blair in Homage to Catalonia. The BBC Radio 4 website has listed the programmes being broadcast as part of The Real George Orwell, including all those which Joseph recorded. 

Dramas

Homage to Catalonia Dramatised for radio by Mike Walker, with Joseph Millson, Lyndsey Marshal, Ewan Bailey. Produced by Kate McAll

Biographical Dramas

Burma By Mike Walker, with Joseph Millson. The story of Orwell’s days as a young Imperial policeman in Burma. Produced by Kate McAll