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• PLAYS FOR BBC
RADIO 4 :
• Includes a trilogy written around performer Lenny Henry: • After You¹ve Gone
-a life of Layton and Johnstone. Lenny Henry. Race in the Media Award from the Commission for Racial Equality •
Almost Always African - Lenny Henry, Bill Nighy. • Like That - Lenny Henry, Linus Roache ON THE FIELD - A dark comedy about life among the Iraqi personel and
soldiers on the Basra base.
ON THE FIELD PART 2 - ENDGAME
Starring Paul Chahidi, Rasmus Hardiker, Paul Rider, Ricardo Coke Thomas, Endy McKay and Stephen Critchlow.Dark
comedy about Iraqi personel and soldiers in Basra - part 2. THE VON TRAPPS AND ME - The Sound Of Music Story from
the point of viw of the jilted baroness. Was Maria really that nice? What was the true story about Captain Von Trapp?
What did the children think about it all? With Helen Baxendale, Joanne Froggat and James Fleet. A COUP - Adaptaion
of Bruce Chatwin's short story set in Benin, starring James Purefoy.
O MARGATE - A dark comedy about art and political
asylum at at the seaside, with Stephen Critchlow, Ashvin Kumar Joshi and Layla Farzad. PASSING - adaptation Nella Larson's
black American classic with Bonnie Greer and Patterson Joseph.
WON'T CHANGE MY LIFE - drama about first lottery
winner.With Suad Farres and Kulvinder Ghir.
SUMMER 76 - drama on Northern Ireland Women’s Peace Movement
using original recordings in the script.
THE TRUCK - A six part comedy series about an ill-matched group of
tourists in Africa.
FOR RICHER FOR POORER - Adaptation of Martha Gelhorn story, with Simon Russel Beale and
Sylvestra La Tousel.
PIAF AND COCTEAU - Story of two artists unusual friendship. Frances Barber, Simon Russell
Beale, Patrick Baladi.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE
Westway - one of the originating writers. A medical drama with audience of 11m that ran
for 7 years worldwide.
The Other War - adaptation of play by Eritrean writer Alamgaset Tesfai
BBC RADIO 3 YOUR ONLY MAN - Based on the life of Irish writer Flann
O'Brien, this 90 minute comedy drama starred Dara O'Brian, Ardal O'Hanlan, Pauline McLynn, Dermot Crowley and Lloyd Hutchinson * * * STILL
THE SAME PAUL - Lenny Henry was the lead in this drama about actor and singer Paul Robeson. A massive star of stage
and screen in Europe and America, Paul Robeson arguably began the black civil rights movement in Amerca. This heroic figure
was persected to the point of clinical insanity by the FBI. His personal sacrifice left a powerful legacy - and some
heart breaking music.
The play also featured Corey Johnson, Alex Lanipekun, Alibe Parsons and Adjua Andoh
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AND MORE RADIO
PLAYS....
Fact To Fiction
- episode of the 2009 series of topical plays written and produced within 5 days Elsie, Doris, Gert
and Daisy - Based on lives of Doris and Elsie Waters, with Susie Blake, Tessa Peake Jones, Celia Imrie.
Member of The
Wedding - adaptation Carson McCullers novel, starring Jenny Jewell.
My Career Goes Bung - 10 part Adaptation of
this Australian classic, BBC Woman’s Hour Dickens Confidential - Episode of this popular series about Charles
Dickens as a crime solving newspaper man.
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