The New Sugar
New drama by Ben Tagoe. With her dad settled back in Barbados and a job offer on the cards, Charlene is forced to decide what is right - and if the island really is paradise.
New drama by Ben Tagoe.
"Pirates used to arrive on boats. Now they arrive in private jets."
Set in a changing Barbados where big pharma and local Rastafarians fight over the right to grow recently-legalised cannabis.
Yorkshire-born Charlene has always felt torn between her roots in Barbados and her upbringing in Leeds. Her father was part of the Windrush generation, but Derek has recently retired to Barbados. To the envy of her friends, Charlene decides to follow him there, to see if she can settle in paradise too.
But the spectre of the country’s sugar industry—an industry grounded in slavery and oppression—looms large as tensions over Charlene's new job grow and her values come under scrutiny.
An EcoAudio certified production.
Charlene ..... Alexandra Mardell
Frank ..... Richard Laing
Richard ..... Kieran Smith
Derek ..... Everal A. Walsh
Ras Kwame ..... Don Gilet
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
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- Tue 13 Feb 2024 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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