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Peter Flannery once famously said of Our Friends in the North, "... it's just a posh soap opera - but it's a posh soap opera with something to say." And now he has rewritten his multi-award winning and highly acclaimed television series as an audio drama for ��ѿ��ý Radio 4. Ambitious in scale and scope, the drama chronicles the lives of four friends over three decades beginning in the 1964. The series tackles corporate, political and police corruption in the 1960s, the rise and fall of the Soho porn empires in the 1970s, the Miners’ Strike of the 1980s and the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. Some of the stories are directly based on the real-life controversies involving T. Dan Smith and John Poulson in Newcastle during the 60s and 70s. The adapted series now ends with a new, tenth episode by writer Adam Usden, bringing the story up to the present day. The third episode opens in 1967. Nicky has turned his back on the Labour Party and is now looking to the anarchists for solutions, Mary and Tosker’s new high-rise flat in Newcastle is almost uninhabitable and, in London, Geordie has fallen in love with his boss’s mistress Jools - a dangerous game. The government are desperate to clean up Soho - Scotland Yard’s Dirty Squad, together with porn baron Benny Barratt, come up with a solution. Cast Geordie: Luke MacGregor DI Salway / Tosker: Philip Correia DS Conrad: Andrew Byron Julia / Mary: Norah Lopez-Holden Benny Barratt / Eddie Wells: Tony Hirst Commander Harold Chapple: James Gaddas Austin Donohue / Claud Seabrook: Tom Goodman-Hill John Edwards: Maanuv Thiara Sandra: Tracey Wilkinson Helen: Eve Shotton Writer: Peter Flannery Studio Engineer: Paul Clark Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Producer: Melanie Harris Executive Producer: Jeremy Mortimer A Sparklab production for ��ѿ��ý Radio 4