Rory Stewart - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• On 25 January 2008 Stewart was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs

• In August 2008, the UK media widely reported that Studio Canal and Brad Pitt's production company Plan B had bought the rights to a biopic of Stewart's life. The actor Orlando Bloom will apparently play Stewart. That Brad Pitt had bought the rights was confirmed on Lateline, on Australia's ABC on 29 July

• On 16 & 23 January 2010, Stewart presented a two part series on "The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia" on BBC2 in the UK

• Stewart speaks some French, Persian (Dari), and Indonesian. He has also studied at school, in the Foreign Office, and on his Asian travels Latin, Greek, Russian, Chinese, Serbo-Croat, Urdu, and Nepali languages. He acknowledges that the latter three languages are "very rusty".

• In May 2012, Stewart wrote and presented Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart, a documentary in two parts written and presented by Rory Stewart that tells the story of foreign intervention by Britain, Russia, and the United States in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. which aired on BBC Two.