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Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist, Episode 1

First ever dramatisation of Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries.

4 Extra Debut. Communist Centre Union squatters attempt to make their digs habitable, with some trying to court the IRA. Stars Olivia Vinall.

Alice and Jasper move into a new squat with other members of the Communist Centre Union. While Alice puts her energies into making the house habitable, the other revolutionaries are busy trying to court the IRA. 

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's 1985 satire about a band of incompetent, bourgeois revolutionaries living in a London squat. 

Starring Olivia Vinall, Joe Armstrong and Sian Thomas. 

Dramatised in ten parts by Sarah Daniels. 

Alice    ......    Olivia Vinall
Jasper    ......    Joe Armstrong
Jim    ......    Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Bert    ......    Ralph Davis
Pat    ......    Isabella Inchbald
Mary    ......    Kath Weare
Dorothy    ......    Sian Thomas
Cedric    ......    Neil McCaul
Teresa    ......    Sudha Bhuchar
Receptionist    ......    Abbie Andrews

Director: Emma Harding.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2018.

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Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries living in a London squat.

Dramatisation of Doris Lessing's 1985 satire of incompetent revolutionaries in a London squat.

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