Afternoon Drama: One Hot Summer Next Wednesday, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 Synopsis by Juliet Gilkes - Romero Liverpool 1919. In desperate times, with high poverty levels and spiraling unemployment, tensions are rising between the different ethnic groups in the city, and for Jamaican soldiers Johnson and Charlie and their mixed race British friend, Sam, life is getting much harder. Based on real events, One Hot Summer tells the story of the race riots which occurred in Liverpool in 1919, when desperate times caused divisions across ethnic lines which exploded into full-blown riots with tragic consequences. The forgotten piece of British history dramatised in this play has been carefully researched by playwright and journalist Juliet Gilkes-Romero and includes verbatim newspaper reports from the time. CAST: Sam ..... Lloyd Thomas Johnson ..... Ben Bennett Ibrahim ..... Don Gilet Charlie ..... Richie Campbell Rose .... Susie Riddell Ahmed ..... George Long Liverpool Courier/ Rioter ..... Patrick Brennan Liverpool Echo/ Drunk ..... Joe Sims Evening Express/ Barman ..... Robert Blythe Drunk/ Rioter ..... Harry Livingstone Directed by Mary Peate. Duration 45 minutes http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,39907,39907#msg-39907 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:21:08 +0100 Phorum 5.2.10 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,39907,39907#msg-39907 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,39907,39907#msg-39907
Next Wednesday, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4
Synopsis

by Juliet Gilkes - Romero

Liverpool 1919. In desperate times, with high poverty levels and spiraling unemployment, tensions are rising between the different ethnic groups in the city, and for Jamaican soldiers Johnson and Charlie and their mixed race British friend, Sam, life is getting much harder.

Based on real events, One Hot Summer tells the story of the race riots which occurred in Liverpool in 1919, when desperate times caused divisions across ethnic lines which exploded into full-blown riots with tragic consequences.

The forgotten piece of British history dramatised in this play has been carefully researched by playwright and journalist Juliet Gilkes-Romero and includes verbatim newspaper reports from the time.

CAST:
Sam ..... Lloyd Thomas
Johnson ..... Ben Bennett
Ibrahim ..... Don Gilet
Charlie ..... Richie Campbell
Rose .... Susie Riddell
Ahmed ..... George Long
Liverpool Courier/ Rioter ..... Patrick Brennan
Liverpool Echo/ Drunk ..... Joe Sims
Evening Express/ Barman ..... Robert Blythe
Drunk/ Rioter ..... Harry Livingstone

Directed by Mary Peate.

Duration
45 minutes]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Wed, 23 May 2012 21:56:37 +0100