Richard Hayton - One Friday Not A Million Miles Past

**** This drama was suggested by its author, Richard Hayton, as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend

It's a play from BBC Radio 4's 1988 Young Playwrights' Festival. When he wrote it, Richard was just 23 and out of work. ***

It's another Friday in the life of Oldtown. But to Mazeguy it's his first without Laura, lost to a new lover - and his last as a clerk in the DHSS. (Department of Health and Social Security)

Without a job and without a girl, Mazeguy tries to lose himself in the abandon of the provincial city's Friday night.

Narrated by John Duttine.

Mazeguy .... Ian Targett
Karen .... Zelah Clarke
Mr Frank .... Ian Michie
Mother .... Polly James
Father .... Michael Tudor Barnes
Mrs Frank .... Caroline Gruber
Mr Shankly .... Simon Cuff
Laura .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Claimant/Gerald .... Ken Cumberlidge
Woman .... Philippa Howell
Woman .... Lolly Cockerell
Mr Evans .... Michael Bilton
Man .... Richard Pearce
Barman/Bouncer .... Anthony Jackson

Producer: Jeremy Mortimer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988.

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