Look Back In Anger

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Nancy Carroll

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John Osborne

Drama on 4: John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

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John Osborne's classic play with David Tennant as Jimmy Porter.

Jimmy Porter is railing against the class system and the voice of a discontented generation. Starring David Tennant.

Richard Wilson directs this dramatisation starring David Tennant as Jimmy Porter. 

Premiering in 1956, John Osborne's classic play that launched the Angry Young Man movement has lost none of its bite and still disturbs and questions in equal measure.

Jimmy Porter...............David Tennant
Alison..........................Nancy Carroll
Cliff.............................Daniel Evans
Helena.........................Claire Price
Colonel........................Sir Ian McKellen

Director: Richard Wilson

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016.

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