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1. Tough Beginnings

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Black teacher Ricardo Braithwaite gets a job in a tough East End school in post-war London. Stars Kwame Kwei Armah.

Rick Braithwaite is a handsome, ex-RAF pilot from Guyana who gets a job as a teacher in a radical school in post-war London's East End.

Once in the classroom, the students are tough, foul-mouthed and angry, proving unreceptive to his teaching methods...

ER Braithwaite's semi-autobiographical, international best-selling novel.

Starring Kwame Kwei-Armah, Sasha Behar and Simon Treves.

Dramatised in two parts by Roy Williams.

Rick ........ Kwame Kwel-Armah
Gillian ........ Sasha Behar
Weston ........ Simon Treves
Clinty ........ Liza Sadovy
Florian ........ Sam Dale
Denham ........ Steven Webb
Pamela ........ Clare Corbett
Seales ........ Ashley Chin
Potter ........ Freddy White
Babs ........ Leanne Rowe

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007.

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Mon 31 Aug 202615:00
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