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Riot Girls

Susan

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

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First of three new plays charting British feminism through three generations of women. We begin in 1975 with a frank exploration of the era's changing ideas about marriage, independence and female sexuality.

Birmingham, 1975. Susan makes the radical decision to leave her husband and take her two children, Emma and Tim, to live in a commune. When this first commune doesn't work – largely because commune life begins to mimic the gender power structures of the outside world – Susan feels compelled to move to an all-female commune. But this means leaving her 6 year old son. By Lucy Catherine.

Susan ..... Sarah Thom
Derek ..... Gerard McDermott
Emma ..... Harmonie Lloyd
Tim ..... Joshua Vaughan
Anne ..... Susan Jameson
Maggie ..... Katherine Jakeways
Dave ..... Ewan Bailey
Charlie ..... George Watkins
Gina ..... Katie Redford

Director ..... Emma Harding
Producer ..... Abigail le Fleming Show less

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