Afternoon Play - The Last Smoker

Julia Dover's adaptation of a short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui, set in modern-day Japan. Cantankerous novelist Haruki, the world's last smoker, is hounded to a fate worse than death by do-gooders and self-righteous journalists, as they try to eradicate smoking once and for all. Haruki ...... John Byrne Haruki's wife ...... Eileen McCallum Yumi ...... Madeleine Worrall Kuskabe ...... Stewart Conn Doctor on the train ...... Madeleine Brolly Translated by Andrew Driver Directed by Matt Thompson.