11-15 December 1917

The fifth omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in Tynemouth, in the week, in 1917, when Crimea proclaimed its independence, as a secular Muslim state, advocating ethnic and gender equality.. Cast

Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone

Iris Reed ..... Charlie Hardwick

Fraser Chadwick ..... Edmund Wiseman

Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready

Dilys Walker ..... Ellie Piercy

Alan Lowther ..... David Seddon

Charlie Long ..... Oliver Devoti

Cressida Marshall ..... Isabella Inchbald

Duncan Chadwick ..... Mark Stobbart

Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont

Esther O'Leary ..... Anna Bolton

Ethel Manning ..... Sophie Scott

Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford

Judith Turner ..... Kate Okello

Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf

Lester Reed ..... Trevor Fox

Margaret Ainsworth ..... Susie Riddell

Matilda James ..... Hannah Wood

Maud Drummond ..... Vineeta Rishi

Peggy Tanney ..... Abbie Andrews

Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom

Sarah Illingworth ..... Naomi Frederick

Trevor Lamb ..... Philip Correia

Yates ..... Neil McCaul

Peter Lumley ..... Bea White Written by Shaun McKenna

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Sound: Martha Littlehailes

Composer: Matthew Strachan

Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.