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Drama on 4: Children's Crusade: Memoirs of a Teenage Radical

Children's Crusade: Memoirs of a Teenage Radical

18/02/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Children's Crusade: Memoirs of a Teenage Radical

By Philip de Gouveia. A teenage girl plans to change the world from the playground up.

Philip de Gouveia's first play for radio is set in Norwich. 15-year-old Evie looks around her and sees technology ruining the world. Can she do something to change the future?

by Philip de Gouveia

Evie, a phenomenally bright but socially marginalised fifteen year-old, has had it with Western Civilization. Self-educated in the ideas of the Luddites, Mao and T.E. Lawrence, she wants to launch a mission against technology and the damage she believes it has wrought on the human race. She's taken a look at human history and decided it's time things changed. For good. But can she get her mobile-addicted classmates to join with her?

Evie ..... Leah Brotherhead
Mikey ..... Luke Treadaway
Carlton ..... Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Kathy ..... Georgia Groome
Heather ..... Christine Kavanagh
Stuart ..... Nicholas Boulton
Eve ..... Sally Orrock
Adam ..... Iain Batchelor

Directed by Rosalynd Ward

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This is Philip de Gouveia's first play for radio. He has worked as a journalist and academic/policy researcher. Two of his stage plays, "The Six Wives of Timothy Leary" and "Isfahan Calling", also integrated political and/or philosophical ideas into the drama.

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