The Corrupted

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GF Newman's The Corrupted

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Drama plotting the fortunes of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in crime.

Crime drama chronicling the fortunes of one family against the backdrop of a revolution in crime.

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GF Newman's The Corrupted: Series 5: Episode 6

Episode 6

Series 5

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Toby Jones plays the now ennobled but corrupt MP, Sir Joseph Olinska.

Toby Jones plays the now ennobled but corrupt MP, Sir Joseph Olinska. Joseph travels to Moscow to try to secure a deal on the Russian pharmaceutical industry.

It's the 1990s and Brian Oldman is still in jail for a crime he didn't commit. 

He found a man in jail able to prove his innocence - but that man was soon found dead in his cell. He suspects that Joseph Oldman, now Sir Joseph Olinska MP, organised the killing.

GF Newman's The Corrupted weaves fiction with real characters from history, following the fortunes of the Oldman/Olinska family - from small-time business and opportunistic petty crime, through gang rivalries, to their entanglement in the highest echelons of society. It's a tale revealing a nexus of crime, business and politics that’s woven through the fabric of 20th century greed, as even those with hitherto good intentions are sucked into a web of corruption.

Joey Oldman, an uneducated Jewish child immigrant from Russia, has a natural instinct for business and a love of money - coupled with a knack for acquiring it. His wife Cath is as ruthless in both the pursuit of money and the protection of her son, Brian. Joey built his empire with the help of a corrupt bank manager in the 1950s, starting with small greengrocer shops before moving into tertiary banking and property development, dealing with many corrupt policemen on the way - and befriending both Lord Goodman and Margaret Thatcher. Now ennobled and on the board of Lehman Brothers, Joseph intends to extend his business interests into Russia with the help of Boris Yeltsin and his cronies. John Major is now the Prime Minister and a young man from the left, Tony Blair, also seems keen on making Joseph’s acquaintance.

The characters are based on GF Newman's novels.

CAST
Joseph Olinska	Toby Jones
Margaret Olinska	Flora Montgomery
Brian Oldman	Joe Armstrong
Nikolai Lebedev/Alexei Egorkin	Kieron Jechinnis
Tony Wednesday/Malcolm Rifkin	Alec Newman
Leah Cohen	        Jasmine Hyde
Boris Isarov	Anatoly Popov
Eddie Richardson	Charles Davies 
Chuck Haley	          Matt Rippy
Pongo	                 Damian Lynch
Rita	                      Sarah Lambie
Lord Carson	       Jamie Newall
Catherine 	         Isabella Urbanowicz
Jack Braden	         John Hollingworth
Warder Peters	 Paul Kemp
Nurse Moriarty 	Lucas Hare

Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4

GF Newman's The Corrupted: Series 5

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It's the 1990s and Brian Oldman is still in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

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