Afternoon Play - Severed Threads - God's Clothing Firm

Jim Nostrand, proprietor of Cheap Threads, a church-owned clothing firm in Minnesota, becomes the scapegoat when news-reports implicate the company in a child-labour scandal. Four thousand miles away, in a boarding school in the British countryside, troubled twelve-year-old loner Ben, seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. In India, British/Asian journalist Prem Sharma is making a radio documentary for the BBC about children working in factories. But after rescuing a young boy and taking him back to his village, the reception he gets there is not what he expected. Over three episodes, these three stories interweave and revolve around each other revealing connections and layers as they build to one climatic resolution. Cast: Jim ..... Brian d'Arcy James Prem ..... Ameet Chana Ben ..... Hugo Docking US Cast: Ruth ..... Marsha Dietlein Faith ..... Amanda Scot Ellis Pastor McGiven ..... Tom Tammi Kyle ..... Matt Bennett Sheila ..... Janet Foster News Anchor ..... John Leonard Thompson Billy ..... Jacob Knoll Harry ..... Craig Bockhorn Casey/Waitress ..... Felicity Jones Prison Priest ..... Miles Chapin India Cast: Rahul ..... Ankur Vikal Amit .....Vijay Yadav Amit's mother ..... Ayesha Raza Amit's brother ..... Sagar Shinde Welfare Officers ..... Veruschka Menon, Pushan Kripalani Dr Khunna ...... Shaikh Sami Usman Factory Owner ..... Kenneth Desai Factory Workers ..... Rupa Kasbe, Jyoti Reddy, Shabana Sheikh, Rita John, Neeta Chavan, Eisy T. John, Pramod Yedke and children from the Akanksa Foundation, Mumbai UK Cast: Fiona .... Natasha Little Timms ..... Henry Goodman Elgood ..... Francois Testory Jones ..... Gethin Anthony Psychologist ..... Kate Fitzgerald Travel Agent ..... Joanne Ferguson Heyward ..... Daniel Bridle Boy .....Callum Francis Production Team: India Line Producer ..... Nadir Khan Assistant Director ..... Tasneem Fatehi India Sound ..... Ayush Ahuja US Producer ..... David Rapkin US Line Producer ..... Kim Moarefi US Casting ..... Janet Foster US Sound ..... Frederick Greenhaigh UK Broadcast Assistant ..... Sarah Tombling UK Production Assistant ..... Lucy Howe Music ..... Sacha Puttnam Written and Directed by John Dryden A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.