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British New Wave celebrates the fiction that became iconic films of the Sixties and the figures who became icons themselves

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Zoe Tapper

Lacey Turner

Hannah Wood

Alex Lanipekun

Ben Crowe

Don Gilet

Amaka Okafor

Philippa Stanton

Joanna Brookes

Paul Stonehouse

Lucy Collingwood

Georgia Fitch

Nell Dunn

British New Wave: Up the Junction

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Up the Junction

03/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - British New Wave, Up the Junction

Zoe Tapper and Lacey Turner star in Nell Dunn's Sixties classic set in Battersea.

Zoe Tapper and Lacey Turner star in Nell Dunn's Sixties classic. Chelsea girl Lily becomes friends with irrepressible sisters Sylvie and Rube in working class Battersea.

By Nell Dunn. Dramatised by Georgia Fitch.

In Nell Dunn's Sixties classic, a young writer from Chelsea decides to swap her privileged life for a grittier experience in industrial Battersea. We join Lily as she embarks on life in the working class community, forming strong friendships with sisters Sylvie and Rube and working in the local sweet factory. The girls scrape together enough to get by on, live in each other's pockets and shake off whatever drama life throws at them.

The bold energy of Nell Dunn's writing and characters is still like a breath of fresh air - fifty years on from the book's original publication.


Director/Producer ..... Lucy Collingwood

Up the Junction was Eastenders' star Lacey Turner's first radio drama.

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