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It Can't Happen Here

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.

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 and Nigel Lewis
Producer - John Norton

A 大象传媒 Audio Wales Production

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

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57 minutes

Last on

Sat 5 Oct 2024 15:00

Broadcast

  • Sat 5 Oct 2024 15:00

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