Afternoon Play - Severed Threads - If Thy Hand Offend Thee

Second part of John Dryden's epic story of inter-connected lives, set on three continents. When journalist Prem Sharma rescues a child working in a textile factory outside Delhi, seven thousand miles away in Minnesota, Jim Nostrand, proprietor of church-owned clothing firm Cheap Threads, becomes the scapegoat. Meanwhile, in a private boarding school in England, troubled twelve-year-old Ben seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. 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 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 Producer/Director: John Dryden A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.