Six of Britain's top TV playwrights were given the opportunity to write the plays they had always wanted to write. The six, including Alun Owen, Barry Bermange, Keith Dewhurst, James Forsyth, and John Mortimer, have between them won about every award in the book.
John Hopkins's play Beyond the Sunrise is about two African politicians - one a modern politician, the other the guardian of traditional values - who are caught up in a conflict of loyalties which ends in bloodshed and sacrifice
with Johnny Sekka as The Chief, Calvin Lockhart as Akanu, Joseph O'Conor as Aston
John Hopkins - his career and his future - see pages 52-55
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