Revolting People
CD cover of the first series
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| Other names | Tollers |
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| Genre | Historical sitcom |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring |
Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses James Fleet Hugh Dennis Tony Maudsley Sophie Thompson (Series 1) Jan Ravens (Series 2-3) Julia Hills (Series 4) Felicity Montagu (Series 1) Penelope Nice (Series 2-3) Susie Blake |
| Created by |
Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses |
| Written by | Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses |
| Produced by | Paul Mayhew-Archer |
| Air dates | 18 January 2000 to 6 June 2006 |
| No. of series | 4 (up to 2006) |
| No. of episodes | 24 (up to 2006) |
| Website | Official website |
Revolting People is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy set in colonial Baltimore, Maryland, just before the American Revolutionary War. The series is written by the Briton Andy Hamilton and the American Jay Tarses, with Tarses playing a sour shopkeeper named Samuel Oliphant and Hamilton playing a cheerfully corrupt, one-legged, one-eyed, one-armed, one-eared one-nostrilled British soldier, Sergeant Roy McGurk, billeted on him.
Samuel's children are Mary, in love with McGurk's commanding officer Captain Brimshaw while at the same time operating as a notorious anti-British pamphleteer under the pseudonym Spartacus; Cora, in an unconsummated marriage with the pompous pro-British official Ezekiel but nevertheless a mother; and the dimwitted Joshua, whose favourite recreation is wrestling bears.
Repeats on the series now play on BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7).
Additional roles played by Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Stevens, Rebecca Front and the cast. Series 1 had guest appearances by William Hootkins as Samuel's brother Dan, and Timothy West as General Venables. Produced by Paul Mayhew-Archer
Originally ran in 2000. Revolved around the imposition of martial law in Baltimore and the springing up of a torrid, though also chaste, love affair between Oliphant's daughter Mary and an officer of the local British garrison, Captain Brimshaw. The show starts on 5 March 1770, the day of the Boston Massacre.
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