Audio Plays
A Story Told Three Times and Still Unfinished
A Story Told Three Times and Still Unfinished is a one-off audio drama, exploring the hidden stories of the Windrush generation and the associated trauma of sharing such stories.
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A Stranger in a Strange Place
A STRANGER IN A STRANGE PLACE is a one-off audio drama, exploring repatriation of people from the British West Indies in 1920s Liverpool.
From Marine Engineer, to working as a ship hand and in timber yards, Claudius Smart has given the motherland his blood, sweat and tears – a most loyal son. But now all doors to employment have been closed on him. His crime? Falling in love with May – a white woman?
A true story from The National Archives’ files, brought shockingly to life by playwright and screenwriter, Mel Pennant.
“Mel offers us a chance in her touching and powerful tale to explore some of the underlying emotions, which a simple reading of the archival documents can cover up.”
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Smile
Three Indian soldiers recover at the iconic Brighton Pavilion hospital. Every detail is provided for but something isn’t quite right. The soldiers question why the plentiful food and high quality care is served in the shadow of guards and bars across windows. Will they be honoured as heroes as the British had led them to believe, or are they merely prisoners being readied again for war?