Drama on 3 - The Pitman Painters, by Lee Hall

The Pitman Painters By Lee Hall. Inspired by the book by William Feaver, Billy Elliott writer Lee Hall questions why the arts seem to belong to the privileged few. Seventy years ago, in an old army hut in Ashington, Northumberland, a group of miners met to talk about art. They wanted their visiting lecturer to explain the secret of a remote world, but he did better than that, he got them painting and put that world in their hands. George Brown ...... Deka Walmsley Oliver Kilbourn ...... Christopher Connel Jimmy Floyd ...... David Whitaker Young lad, Ben Nicholson ...... Brian Lonsdale Harry Wilson ...... Michael Hodgson Robert Lyon ...... Ian Kelly Susan Parks ...... Lisa McGrillis Helen Sutherland, Vera Brown ...... Phillippa Wilson Directed for radio by Kate Rowland.