Barbeque 67: The Original Summer of Love

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Robert Glenister and Anamaria Marinca in a drama about migrant workers Jimi Hendrix and the true story of the rock festival that launched the Summer of Love. With verbatim accounts from those who took part, including Geno Washington, Zoot Money and Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason. In a Lincolnshire landscape now home to labourers from Eastern Europe, Doug’s greatest memory is of Spalding’s Barbeque 67. Widowed, retired and depressed, this former tulip farmer (Robert Glenister) is helped to his feet by the young Romanian Tereza (Anamaria Marinca). An intimate friendship blossoms. Tereza grafts at picking vegetables and grading potatoes, but she once fronted her own band, Purple Haze, and Doug finds himself retelling the story of the night when Hendrix came to Spalding and played in the first ever rock festival. For, amazing as it sounds, this happened exactly 55 years ago. On 29th May 1967 thousands descended on a giant agricultural shed, the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall. Alongside Hendrix, one of the greatest line-ups in rock history included Eric Clapton, Geno Washington, Pink Floyd, The Move, Zoot Money and local band Sound Force Five. While Doug measures the person he has become against the person that Hendrix invited him to be, events in the town lead to an escalation of hostility to its Romanian workers. A series of confrontations will leave both Doug and Tereza to make decisions about where their futures lie. Cast: Doug - Robert Glenister Tereza - Anamaria Marinca John - Gerard McDermott Young Doug - Tom Glenister Young John - Joe Parker Jimi Hendrix - Shaq B. Grant Stefan - Timotei Cobeanu Mr Carlton - Roger Alborough Additional, real-life contributors: Jane Cooper Lynton Guest Doug Kendall Christopher Longstaff Rob Mardle Vic Martin Nick Mason Zoot Money Rob Offer Mick Peacey Alastair Stewart Colin Ward Geno Washington Written by Andy Barrett Sound Design: David Thomas Director: Andy Jordan Producer: Jonathan Banatvala Executive Producer: Melanie Nock An International Arts Partnership production for BBC Radio 4