Revolting People

Posted by Riklaa on March 17, 2010 at 8:19pm

Revolting People

Revolting People is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy set in colonial Baltimore, Maryland, just before the American Revolutionary War. The series is written by the Briton Andy Hamilton and the American Jay Tarses, with Tarses playing a sour shopkeeper named Samuel Oliphant and Hamilton playing a cheerfully corrupt, one-legged, one-eyed, one-armed, one-eared one-nostrilled British soldier, Sergeant Roy McGurk, billeted on him.

Samuel's children are Mary, in love with McGurk's commanding officer Captain Brimshaw while at the same time operating as a notorious anti-British pamphleteer under the pseudonym Spartacus; Cora, in an unconsummated marriage with the pompous pro-British official Ezekiel but nevertheless a mother; and the dimwitted Joshua, whose favourite recreation is wrestling bears.

 


Genre Historical sitcom
Running time 30 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Languages English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Starring Andy Hamilton
Jay Tarses
James Fleet
Hugh Dennis
Tony Maudsley
Sophie Thompson (Series 1)
Jan Ravens (Series 2-3)
Julia Hills (Series 4)
Felicity Montagu (Series 1)
Penelope Nice (Series 2-3)
Susie Blake
Creators Andy Hamilton
Jay Tarses
Writers Andy Hamilton
Jay Tarses
Producers Paul Mayhew-Archer
Air dates January 18, 2000 to June 6, 2006
No. of series 4 (up to 2006)
No. of episodes 24 (up to 2006)

Revolting People - s1e1 - Storm Clouds.mp3

Revolting People - s1e2 - More Storm Clouds.mp3

Revolting People - s1e3 - Even More Storm Clouds.mp3

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