6. The Reckoning

With populist party Fightback gaining ground, Abbie’s star is rising fast. And Sonia can’t escape the part she played in creating it.

Back at the Ness for the final time, she remembers how her life changed after her mentor Faith's death a year ago. A reckoning awaits her.

Series Overview
Four young idealists - Sonia, Kieran, Indigo and Ayad - fall under the spell of charismatic thinker Faith Abbott at university and channel her ideas into a bold political experiment: Project Hope. Thrown into a struggling coastal town vulnerable to the far right, they try to reinvent politics from the ground up, backed - and sometimes undermined - by the unpredictable Abbie.

Project Hope captures global attention, but when Faith denounces them from beyond the grave, the group are forced to confront their shared history, and the moral compromises they've made to remain “good people”.

Good People is a fictional story set against our very real political moment, examining the rise of populism, the perceived failure of politics-as-usual, and the deep divisions that run though our country and beyond.

This is the sixth and final episode in an ambitious six-part state of the nation drama from award-winning political writer Steve Waters.

CAST
Sonia ..... Natalie Simpson
Abbie ..... Iona Champain
Kieran ..... Nicholas Armfield
Ayad ..... Ikky Kabir
Indigo ..... Alby Baldwin
Gabe ..... Django Bevan

Writer ..... Steve Waters
Sound ..... Andy Garratt, Keith Graham, Sam Dickinson
Casting Manager ..... Alex Curran
Script Development ..... Abigail Le Fleming
Production Co-ordinator ..... Kate Gray
Assistant Producer ..... Luke MacGregor
Director ..... Anne Isger

A BBC Studios Audio production