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Ben Miles
It Can't Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2024
  • 1 episode

Adaptation of satirical novel about a populist US President being elected in the 1930s. Stars Ben Miles, Debora Weston, Ashleigh Haddad, Nathan Osgood, Stuart Milligan and Nathan Nolan

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2024
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Stars
Ben Miles, Debora Weston, Ashleigh Haddad, Nathan Osgood, Stuart Milligan and Nathan Nolan
Writers
Sinclair Lewis and Mike Walker
Producer
John Norton
Company

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.

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Additional details

Also known as
  • Drama On 4: It Can't Happen Here

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 5th October 2024 at 3pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
1 hour

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