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Miss Nobody: Part 2

Author, activist and poet, Ethel Carnie is cited as the first English working class novelist. This adaptation uses a mash up of two of her novels; Miss Nobody, and This Slavery.

Miss Nobody episode 2/2
by Ethel Carnie, dramatised by Mary Cooper
A musical adaptation, following the lives of two working women in 1911 Lancashire. Carrie has returned from the countryside and joins Rachel to work in the mill. Rachel rallies the workers to join the union and strike. Tensions rise as mill workers are brought in from the Midlands to replace the strikers.

Ethel Carnie - Jenny Platt
Carrie - Evie Hargreaves
Rachel - Helen O'Hara
Robert/Dawson/Jones - Conrad Nelson
Sarah/Gran - Alexandra Mathie
Mrs. Martin/Jane - Fionnuala Dorrity
Jack/Blackleg/Barstock- Chris Hannon
Nancy - Poppy O'Brien
Singers: Janet Swan, Rosie Swan, Jules Gibb, Katherine Watson, Grainne Gordon,
Victoria Knott, Mark Mukerji and Huw Johnson and all members of the cast.
Accordion - Hannah James
Music composed, arranged and played by Rowan Rheingans,
Production co-ordinators Pippa Day and Vicky Moseley
Sound by Simon Highfield, and Sharon Hughes
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

57 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Oct 2022 15:00

Broadcast

  • Sun 30 Oct 2022 15:00