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Nigerian
actor Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in BBC World Service's City of Spades
Acclaimed
Dirty Pretty Things actor Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a young Nigerian
in BBC World Service's radio play City of Spades on 14 June 2003.
In
vibrant and authentic style, it documents and celebrates life in
the melting pot of the capital in the late fifties as England assimilates
the legacy of its Empire days.
It
is a dramatisation of the first of Colin MacInnes' celebrated London
trilogy of novels published in 1957.
Johnny
Fortune (Chiwetel) arrives in London in the late fifties looking
for excitement.
He
is soon caught up in the new and exuberant black sub-culture, but
not before making his routine visit to a Welfare Officer in the
Colonial Department.
The
newly-appointed Montgomery Pew is fascinated by his ebullient and
charismatic visitor and cannot resist trailing him to the very places
he has listed in the file marked "Warning Folder of People
and Places to Avoid".
Chiwetel
Ejiofor was born in East London to Nigerian parents. His father
is a doctor and his mother a pharmacist.
Chiwetel
attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and, at 19,
played a translator in Steven Spielberg's movie Amistad.
City
of Spades is adapted for radio by Biyi Bandele and Directed by Toby
Swift.
Notes
to Editors
City
of Spades: 1 x 90 minute programme
International
Broadcast Times:
West Africa: | Sat 22.01 rpt Sun 01.01, 18.32
Europe: | Sat 17.32 rpt Sun 01.01
E and S Africa: | Sun 01.01 rpt 10.01
Middle East: | Sun 01.01 rpt 09.32
South Asia: | Sat 11.32 rpt Sun 23.01
East Asia: | Sat 18.01 rpt Sun 11.32, 17.01
Americas: | Sat 12.01 rpt Sun 01.01| Mon 05.01
Listen
online: from 14 June 2003 (updated weekly Saturdays) at
bbcworldservice.com/programmes
- choose Play of the Week from the drop down list of programmes.
BBC
World Service broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages
and is available on radio and online.
It
has a global audience of 150 million listeners while its website
bbcworldservice.com
receives 100 million page impressions each month.
Dirty
Pretty Things wins Best Film and Best Actor awards (03.02.03)
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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