Maydays. Part 3: Human Dust

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David Edgar's audio reworking of his landmark theatre play concludes. Martin has broken up painfully with his revolutionary socialist past and with fellow activist Amanda. Meanwhile Soviet dissident Pavel Lermontov has been released and is en route to London, where the lives and beliefs of the two men will collide. Martin Glass ..... Mark Quartley Jeremy Crowther ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild Pavel Lermontov ..... Simon Scardifield Amanda ..... Ellie Kendrick Sir Hugh Trelawney ..... Oliver Ford Davies Miklos Paloczi ..... Adrian Klein Clara Ivanovna ..... Ruth Everett Tanya ..... Ria Marshall Phyllis Weiner ..... Jane Slavin Newsreader ..... Roger Ringrose James Grain ..... Jonathan Forbes Phil Mandrell ..... Colin Ryan Sound Design by Peter Ringrose Directed by Toby Swift A BBC Audio Production for Radio 4 Maydays was originally produced on stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre in London in 1983, directed by Ron Daniels. The play was revived in a new version at the Other Place in Stratford in 2018, directed by Owen Horsley. David Edgar wrote a solo show, Trying it On, which reveals the autobiographical background to Maydays. First seen on stage in 2018 in an engagingly honest performance by its author, it was then reversioned for Radio 4 and recorded in front of an audience at the Radio Theatre in London Broadcasting House in 2019. You can hear that again on Radio 4 on 4th March 2023 and then on BBC Sounds.