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Afternoon Theatre: When the Director-General of the Prison Service Served Six Months for a Tax Fiddle

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Bjorn Runeborg
translated and adapted for radio by Ann Henning

A satire on Sweden's prison service, one of the more enlightened in the world. Prisoners enjoy wages, trades unions, visiting wives and girlfriends. But in spite of the officialdom, social reformers and even 'the enlightened' still regard themselves as 'us' and criminals as 'them' ... until the Director-General is sent to jail for six months.
Could it happen here?

Contributors

Writer:
Bjorn Runeborg
Adapter/Translator:
Ann Henning
Music by:
Roger Limb
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Martin Torstensson, Director General:
Anthony Newlands
Brita Stenmalm, prison psychologist:
Mary Wimbush
Ansgar Lindstrom, prison architect:
Alaric Cotter
2138 Olsson, an ordinary inmate:
Michael Harbour
Police Supt/TV presenter:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Karl Smedberg:
William Fox
Minister of Justice:
Gerald Cross
Prison Governor:
John Gabriel
Prison warden:
Rod Beacham
Musicians:
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Source: Radio Times

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