The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty cast revealed
Live audience sitcom The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty will start on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 24th August at 11pm.
It's now been revealed that Jessica Knappett and Colin McFarlane will co-star in the comedy written by Brighty and Amy Greaves.
The four-part series inverts the familiar worlds of BBC period dramas, Jane Austen, Poldark and Bridgerton. It follows a hedonistic Regency-era aristocrat (Brighty) who has an epiphany and decides he must right all his many past wrongs, accompanied by his radical chambermaid Babs (Knappett) and very reluctant butler Churlington (McFarlane).
Brighty, Knappett and McFarlane are joined on air by an ensemble cast comprising of Chiara Goldsmith, Katia Kvinge, Joz Norris, Nimisha Odedra and David Reed.
The plot is described as follows: "Lord Christian Brighty is the talk of the Regency Ton - a celebrated libertine, a heartthrob and a hero to many. But close-up, he is a spoiled, impetuous, life-ruining bastard... Or at least he was. Having had his carefree life of infinite privilege upended when his new chambermaid, the uneducated but forthright Babigail (Babs for short), tells him the unvarnished truth about his selfish behaviour. Overnight, his lifelong trust that everyone loved him, is replaced with the gnawing fear that Babs might be right. With his narcissism collapsing and a need to prove that he is actually a good person, Lord Brighty is determined to fix all his past wrongs and, by extension, all the ills of Regency Society. Accompanying him in his quest are Babs (elevated beyond her station to a chambermaid-cum-adviser) and his butler Churlington (who, like the rest of high society, would really prefer everything to stay exactly as it used to be).
"The series takes the trope of the charming and untameable rake, turns him up to 11, and then forces him to confront just how morally bankrupt his existence is. It's a show about entitlement, romance, and trying to become a better person when you're desperately ill-equipped to do so."