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Friday Play - The Last Time I Saw Richard

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Drama documentary about the life and death of the Sri Lankan journalist and TV newsreader Richard de Zoysa, who was abducted and killed in February 1990. Set in the preceding years, when the Sri Lankan government was undertaking a bloody crackdown of the ultra-Marxist JVP organisation with which de Zoysa was suspected to be allied. Inspired by interviews with those who knew and worked with him, with some fictional scenes. Richard de Zoysa ...... Jehan Aloysius Ravi ...... Wassam Ismael Manorani ...... Tracy Holsinger Rajiva Wijesinha ...... Sean Amarasekera And Kandy ...... Nigel da Silva Ranjan Wijeratne ...... Rohan Ponniah Madura ...... Ruvin da Silva Police Chief ...... Delon Weerasinghe Ranjani ...... Subha Wijesikiwardena Kusim ...... Mahomed Adamally Young Richard ...... Hiran Abeysekera Directed by Willi Richards.