Television's Over

Frank Cottrell Boyce's series of five plays ends where it all began - The Police Club, Camberley, 1977. Punk heroes The Adverts will change the lives of twenty seven bored teenagers forever.

Punk rock is rumoured to be arriving in suburban Surrey.

Is anarchy about to overwhelm civilized society or is this salvation for the bored teenagers of Camberley?

The final play in the series takes us back 34 years to where it all begin; the day punk heroes the Adverts arrived at the Police Club in Camberley. Many of the characters we have met in earlier plays are there in their teenage guise. At the centre of it all is Adam, a young lad in desperate need of something to believe in.

Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce is probably best known for films like '24 Hour Party People', 'A Cock & Bull Story', 'Hilary & Jackie', 'Welcome to Sarajevo' and 'Butterfly Kiss'. He won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2004 for 'Millions', his first novel, which was subsequently filmed by British director Danny Boyle.

Adam …. Kristopher Milnes
Pete …. Freddy White
Sergeant Henshaw .... Gerard Horan
Councillor Myatt …. Fenella Woolgar
Mo .... Leanne Rowe
Benny …. James Daley
Pete's dad .... Ben Crowe
Muttley/Steve .... John Hasler
Margaret/Sharon .... Amy Enticknap
D.I. Voke .... John Rowe
Charlie Damage …. Dan Starkey
Town Clerk .... Nyasha Hatendi
Julie .... Sarah Bedi
Mo's mum .... Joan Walker
Mick .... Tim James

Director: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.