The Good Terrorist

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Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist: Episode 9

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Episode 9

Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist, Episode 9

Alice (Olivia Vinall) goes to visit her mother, Dorothy (Sian Thomas).

Alice takes no responsibility for the financial drain she has placed on her mother’s living circumstances. Stars Joe Armstrong.

Alice goes to visit her mother, Dorothy, who's now living in greatly reduced circumstances, thanks to the financial drain of Alice and her boyfriend Jasper. Not that Alice takes any responsibility for this. 

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

Dramatised in ten parts by Sarah Daniels.

Alice ...... Olivia Vinall
Dorothy ...... Sian Thomas
Joan ...... Ellie Darvill

Director: Emma Harding.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 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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