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15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time: Episode 5

Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time, Episode 5

Still missing Chrissy and Gloria, Steven is persuaded to go on holiday with another friend

Still missing Chrissy and Gloria, Steven is persuaded to go on holiday with another friend to Blackpool. Dramatised by Amanda Whittington.

Amanda Whittington's coming of age drama set in 1979 about a gay teenager from a Nottinghamshire mining town tells the story of Steven and his two flamboyant best friends who live as girls. Today: Still missing Chrissy and Gloria, Steven is persuaded to go on holiday with another friend to Blackpool.

Steven.....Joe Dempsie
Gloria.....Karl Davies 
Chrissy.....Joe Doherty
Billy.....Freddie Fox
Tom.....Robert Lonsdale
Bouncer.....David Seddon.

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century 13: Once Upon A Time

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Drama: Biographical

The story of a gay teen in a Nottinghamshire mining town. Dramatised by Amanda Whittington

Coming-of-age drama dramatised by Amanda Whittington, set in 1979 and based on the diary of a gay teenager living in a Nottinghamshire mining town

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