The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

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.

• Alan PlaterWriter
• John GlenisterDirector

• Ronald PickupGeorge Orwell
• Fiona WalkerAvril Blair
• David SwiftRichard Rees
• Kit ThackerBill Dunn
• Melanie ParrSusan Watson
• Lucinda GaneMargaret Fletcher
• Eileen McCallumShopkeeper
• Billy RiddochDonald Darroch
• Robin DaviesHenry Dakins
• Sally KinghornLucy Dakin
• Wendy MarshJane Dakin
• Graeme RozgaRichard Blair (Age 2)