It Can't Happen Here

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Sinclair Lewis's prescient 1936 satirical novel It Can't Happen Here, adapted for radio by Mike Walker. Following her recent discovery of a series of interviews recorded in 1939 with Doremus Jessup, the exiled editor of The New England Informer, Jane Fernandez takes us on a very personal journey into history in this one-off documentary charting the rise and fall of America's most unlikely president - Berzelius 'Buzz' Windrip. CAST Doremus Jessup - Ben Miles Lorinda Bryant - Debora Weston The Presenter - Ashleigh Haddad President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip - Nathan Osgood Bishop Prang - Stuart Milligan Shad Ladue - Nathan Nolan Production Co-ordinator - Eleri McAuliffe Sound Design - Catherine Robinson and Nigel Lewis Producer - John Norton A BBC Audio Wales Production The programme image uses a photograph from a "Pro-American Rally" held at Madison Square Garden in 1939.