Chicken Soup with Barley by Arnold Wesker

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*** Celebrated actor Frank Finlay joins 4 Extra’s 100 Club. Born 6 August 2026, he died in 2016, aged 89.**** October 4, 1936: London's east end is awaiting one of Oswald Mosley's Fascist marches. Meet Sarah Kahn; her shiftless husband, Harry; their two children, Ada and Ronnie; Harry's sister, Cissie (a trade union organiser); and Dave Simmonds, who will later marry Ada. Follow them through 20 years of doubt, difficulty and disillusion, at the end of which the indomitable Sarah can still cry: 'We got through, didn't we? We got scars but we got through. You hear me, Ronnie? You've got to care, you've got to care or you'll die!' Starring Frank Finlay and Miriam Karlin. The first of a trilogy of plays, written by Arnold Wesker – first staged in 1958. Sarah Kahn ... Miriam Karlin Harry Kahn ... Frank Finlay Monty Blatt ... Haydn Jones Dave Simmonds ... Mark Eden Prince Silver ... Malcolm Hayes 1st Voice ... Will Leighton 2nd Voice ... Jonathan Scott Hymie Kossof ... Peter Claughton Cissie Kahn ... Marjorie Westbury Ada Kahn (as a child) ... Adrienne Poster Ada Kahn (grown-up) ... Sheila Allen Ronnie Kahn ... David Saire Bessie Blatt ... Hilda Kriseman Girl ... Elizabeth Morgan Man ... Will Leighton Narrator ... Peter Claughton Producer: Charles Lefeaux First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1962. *** Arnold Wesker was knighted for his services to drama and literature in 2006.