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Things Fall Apart

Episode 5

Duration: 14 minutes

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

The tragic concluding episode of Chinua Achebe’s classic novel about the rise and fall of Okonkwo dramatised by Biyi Bandele.

As the Christian Missionaries and the British Colonial Officers take ever stronger control over Umuofia will Okonkwo be able to persuade his fellow clan members to fight for their independence?

OKONKWO.....Okezie Morro
OBIERIKA.....Cyril Nri
AJOFIA / HEAD MESSENGER.....Sule Rimi
REV BROWN/ DISTRICT COMMISSIONER.....Andonis Anthony
NWOYE / INTERPRETER.....Michael Ajao
EKWUEME.....Richard Pepple

Directed by Nadia Molinari
Original Music by Tayo Akinbode
Sound Design by Sharon Hughes Show less

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