 CD cover of the first series | |
| Other names | Tollers |
|---|---|
| Genre | Historical sitcom |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring | Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses James Fleet Hugh Dennis Tony Maudsley Sophie Thompson (Series 1) Jan Ravens (Series 2-3) Julia Hills (Series 4) Felicity Montagu (Series 1) Penelope Nice (Series 2-3) Susie Blake |
| Created by | Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses |
| Written by | Andy Hamilton Jay Tarses |
| Produced by | Paul Mayhew-Archer |
| Original release | 18 January 2000 – 6 June 2006 |
| No. of series | 4 (up to 2006) |
| No. of episodes | 24 (up to 2006) |
| Website | Official website |
Revolting People is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy set in colonial Baltimore, 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 pseudonym Spartacus; 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).