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The Republicans

Donald Trump: This Isn’t Happening

Duration: 44 minutes

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

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Entertaining new dramas following the political swings of the Republican Party, through the personal stories of its Presidents.

Closely based on the accounts of those who were there, we imagine the triumphs and disasters which have driven the party's electoral fortunes.

2016. At a campaign rally, Donald Trump declares: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

But when President Trump loses his temper on his Scottish golf course one day, things work out very differently....

Donald Trump ..... Lewis MacLeod
Young Donald ..... Josh Berry
Ivanka Trump ..... Christy Meyer
Abraham Lincoln ..... William Hope
Richard Nixon ..... Ian Conningham
Roy Cohn ..... Corey Johnson
Fred Trump ..... Neil McCaul
Melania Trump ..... Jessica Turner
TV Producer ..... Clive Hayward
Till Girl ..... Sinead MacInnes

Written by Jonathan Myerson

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting Show less

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