It Can't Happen Here [Drama]

Sinclair Lewis's prescient 1936 satirical novel It Can't Happen Here, adapted for radio by Mike Walker.

Following her recent discovery of a series of interviews recorded in 1939 with Doremus Jessup, the exiled editor of The New England Informer, Jane Fernandez takes us on a very personal journey into history in this one-off documentary charting the rise and fall of America's most unlikely president - Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip.

CAST

Doremus Jessup - Ben Miles

Lorinda Bryant - Debora Weston

The Presenter - Ashleigh Haddad

President Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip - Nathan Osgood

Bishop Prang - Stuart Milligan

Shad Ladue - Nathan Nolan

Production Co-ordinator - Eleri McAuliffe

Sound Design - Catherine Robinson

Producer - John Norton

A BBC Audio Wales Production

Sinclair Lewis's prescient 1936 satire adapted for radio by Mike Walker. Stars Ben Miles.

In a series of interviews recorded in 1939 Doremus Jessup, ex-editor of The New England Informer, recalls the rise and fall of America's crazy populist president Buzz Windrip.

Sound Design - Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis

The programme image uses a photograph from a 'Pro-American Rally' held at Madison Square Garden in 1939.

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