1. Tough Beginnings

Available for 28 days

Rick Braithwaite is a handsome, ex-RAF pilot from Guyana who gets a job as a teacher in a radical school in post-war London's East End. Once in the classroom, the students are tough, foul-mouthed and angry, proving unreceptive to his teaching methods... ER Braithwaite's semi-autobiographical, international best-selling novel. Starring Kwame Kwei-Armah, Sasha Behar and Simon Treves. Dramatised in two parts by Roy Williams. Rick ........ Kwame Kwel-Armah Gillian ........ Sasha Behar Weston ........ Simon Treves Clinty ........ Liza Sadovy Florian ........ Sam Dale Denham ........ Steven Webb Pamela ........ Clare Corbett Seales ........ Ashley Chin Potter ........ Freddy White Babs ........ Leanne Rowe Producer: Claire Grove First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007.