Revolting People

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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 British 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-nostrilled British soldier, Sergeant Roy McGurk.

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[edit] Cast

Additional roles played by Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Stevens and the cast

Produced by Paul Mayhew Archer

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Series 1 (2000)

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 (a notorious anti-British pamphleteer operating under the pseudonym Spartacus) and an officer of the local British garrison, Captain Brimshaw.

  1. January 18 Storm Clouds
  2. January 25 More Storm Clouds
  3. February 1 Even More Storm Clouds
  4. February 8 Tons of Storm Clouds
  5. February 15 A Helluva Lot of Even More Storm Clouds
  6. February 22 An Incredible Amount of Storm Clouds

[edit] Series 2 (2001)

Originally ran in 2001. Less continuous than series 1 but developed the same theme with the added introduction of Oliphant's long-departed wife reappearing as a lesbian (to McGurk's lecherous satisfaction).

  1. April 24 Trying Times
  2. May 1 Even More Trying Times
  3. May 8 Some More Trying Times
  4. May 15 And Yet Even More Trying Times
  5. May 22 A Bunch More Trying Times
  6. May 29 Still in Trying Times

[edit] Series 3 (2004)

The third series originally ran in 2004 and consisted of stand-alone episodes parodying various classic films with a final episode that turned the series on its head.

  1. May 27 Young Love
  2. June 3 A Kiss is Just a Kiss
  3. June 10 The God-Given Talent
  4. June 17 Over the Rainbow
  5. June 24 Them Thar Hills
  6. July 1 Secrets And Lies

[edit] Series 4 (2006)

first broadcast in 2006

  1. May 2 Samuel's pompous son in law, Ezekiel, is kidnapped by a rebel militia
  2. May 9 Samuel goes in search of his cousin
  3. May 16 Samuel realises he's in the middle of a war when half his shop is burnt down by colonist and the other half by the British. This episode opened with a nightmare in which Samuel is sent to Hell for indecision. The Devil turns out to resemble McGurk; a reference to Andy Hamilton's role as Satan in Old Harry's Game.
  4. May 23 Samuel, McGurk and the others flee to England
  5. May 30 Samuel, McGurk and the others arrive in London
  6. June 6 Samuel, McGurk and the others finally meet King George III.

[edit] External links

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