Radio Stories Project - Legsy Gets a Break
In this project our broad objectives were: to increase engagement in creative
activity in hard-to-reach young people; to include and involve young people in a
process of creating high quality radio drama for BBC transmission;
and to produce for a large BBC audience a drama which describes
young people in an insightful and understanding way, using their words.

'Legsy gets a Break' was the outcome, performed at live radio recordings at South Street Arts Centre, Reading; The Point, Eastleigh; and Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham.
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"Legsy has been an experiment, but it's worked. The idea of bringing an audience into a theatre to interact with actors in a drama then, with encouragement from our own Presenters on the night, ask them to question the actors in charactor on such an emotive subject was a huge success."

Duncan McClarty, BBC Producer

Top left photo: Gerry Thompson
Centre photo: Paul Maple

The drama was created by Jon Potter and Phil Gladwin, written by Phil Gladwin and produced by Jon Potter and Duncan McLarty. The cast, in order of appearance:

Isaac Stanmore             Legsy
Kristian Deltchev           Brady / Ash
Kajal Patel                     Woman / Chloe
Tim Thomas                  Grandad / Police Constable
Simon Harvey               Sgt. Marlow / Mr Brown
Daisy Whyte                 Donna
Matt Weyland               DCI Taylor

Presenters from the stations, Andrew Peach (Berkshire), Julian Clegg (Solent) and Neil Pringle (Southern Counties) compered the evenings of 5 ten-minute episodes...
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