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From Fact to Fiction: Series 16

Ayesha Antoine

Ony Uhiara

Jaimi Barbakoff

David Cann

Nandita Ghose

Lemn Sissay

From Fact to Fiction: Series 16: Episode 1: Keeping the House in Order

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Episode 1: Keeping the House in Order

Series 16

Keeping the House in Order

BBC Radio 4 - From Fact to Fiction, Series 16, Keeping the House in Order

Performance poet Lemn Sissay creates a fictional response to a story in this week's news.

Performance poet Lemn Sissay creates a fictional response to the Oscar Pistorius trial in a surreal play set in the new South Africa.

The trial of Oscar Pistorius was adjourned this week. If Pistorius had a maid, she would be out of a job. Now she must search for a new one. But her interviewers do not intend to employ her - they just want to know the inside track on the celebrity story of the decade. The play is an original and surreal exploration of the trial that has gripped South Africa and the wider world since it began.

Directed by Nandita Ghose

Multi-award winning poet, playwright and social campaigner Lemn Sissay has published and performed his poetry internationally. He has written plays for stage and radio including a recent adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy.

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