Revolting People is a BBC Radio 4situation comedy set in colonialBaltimore, Maryland, just before and during the American Revolutionary War. The series is written by the Briton Andy Hamilton and the American Jay Tarses, with Tarses playing a sour shopkeeper named Samuel Oliphant and Hamilton playing a cheerfully corrupt, one-legged, one-eyed, one-armed, one-eared one-nostrilled British soldier, Sergeant Roy McGurk, billeted on him.
Samuel's children are Mary, who is in love with McGurk's prim commanding officer Captain Brimshaw while at the same time operating as a notorious anti-British pamphleteer under the pseudonymSpartacus; Cora, in an unconsummated marriage with the pompous pro-British Loyalist official Ezekiel but nevertheless a mother; and the dimwitted Joshua, whose favourite recreation is wrestling bears.
Series 1 and 2 were released on CD in 2007–8. Repeats on the series now play on BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7).
Originally ran in 2000. Revolved around the imposition of martial law in Baltimore and the springing up of a torrid, though also chaste, love affair between Oliphant's daughter Mary and an officer of the local British garrison, Captain Brimshaw. The show starts on 5 March 1770, the day of the Boston Massacre.
18 January–Storm Clouds
25 January–More Storm Clouds
1 February–Even More Storm Clouds
8 February–Tons of Storm Clouds
15 February–A Helluva Lot of Storm Clouds
22 February–An Incredible Amount of Storm Clouds
This series was released on CD on 3 September 2007.
Series 2 (2001)
Originally ran in 2001. Less continuous than series 1 but developed the same theme with the added introduction of Oliphant's long-departed wife reappearing as a lesbian (to McGurk's lecherous satisfaction).
24 April–Trying Times
1 May–Even More Trying Times
8 May–Some More Trying Times
15 May–And Yet Even More Trying Times
22 May–A Bunch More Trying Times
29 May–Still in Trying Times
This series was released on CD on 7 January 2008.
Series 3 (2004)
The third series originally ran in 2004 and consisted of stand-alone episodes parodying various classic films with a final episode that turned the series on its head.
27 May–Young Love
3 June–A Kiss is Just a Kiss (parodying Casablanca)
First broadcast in 2006, and repeated from 31 March 2007. The events of the final episode of the previous series are explained as having been a dream.
2 May–Ezekiel is Kidnapped–Samuel's pompous son-in-law, Ezekiel, is kidnapped by a rebel militia
9 May–McGurk Runs the Shop–Samuel goes in search of his cousin
16 May–George Washington[4]–Samuel realises he's in the middle of a war when half his shop is burnt down by rebelling colonists and the other half by the British[5]
23 May–Pirates–Samuel, McGurk and the others flee to England
30 May–Reunion–Samuel, McGurk and the others arrive in London
6 June–The King–Samuel, McGurk and the others finally meet King George III[6]
↑ The episode centres on Capt Brimshaw's attempt to convince Washington to negotiate a peace with Britain.
↑ This episode opened with a nightmare in which Samuel is sent to Hell for indecision. The Devil turns out to resemble McGurk; a reference to Andy Hamilton's role as Satan in Old Harry's Game.
↑ They nearly manage to get him to call off the war, until Mary accidentally implies that the war is "all about oil" (in a reference to a criticism made by the opposition to the Iraq War) and re-awakens Britain's interest in keeping the rebellious colony.
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